lines

Lines are used for all graphics in MS Excel. Lines are typically used to outline the shape, but you can also use them for arrows and for drawing directly on your worksheet. Excel allows you to specify the color or pattern that should be used for ... your lines. To change the line color used in an object, follow the steps below for a version prior to 2007: Make sure the Drawing toolbar is displayed. Click once on the object whose line color you want to change to select it. Click on the Line Color tool o n the Drawing toolbar. The color of the lines in the object are changed to the color used in ... (view more)

When you first draw a shape, it appears empty, with a thin black border. You can add color, shading and fill effects to a selected shape by using the Fill Color button. Click the Fill Color button to see the menu. Here you can click a color to fill ... the shape, or click More Fill Colors to get a dialog box offering even more colors. After you've selected a color, you can add fill effects. Click the Fill Effects button on the Fill Color menu to see the Fill Effects dialog box. On the Gradient tab, you can choose to shade from one color to another. The Texture tab offers a selection of realistic ... (view more)

Spacing affects the readability of a document. If you have long lines of text spanning the width of the page, your eye has to work to track all the way across it. To make it easier to follow the lines across the page, you should increase the spacing ... between the lines (or shorten the lines). That's why teachers usually ask students to double-space reports. As with all paragraph formatting, place the insertion point within the paragraph or highlight all or part of the paragraphs you want to format; then, do any of the following instructions. Set Line Spacing using Menus: Choose Format | ... (view more)