Excel contains many powerful ready-made drawing tools such as lines arrows, rectangles, circles, cubes, block arrows, callouts, stars and banners that you can add to your worksheets.  Move your mouse pointer over any drawing icon to display an informational box explaining what the drawing tool is.  These tools are located on the Illustrations group under the Insert Ribbon.  The Shapes are grouped for you by the following categories:

•       Recently Used Shapes
•       Lines
•       Rectangles
•       Basic Shapes
•       Block Arrows
•       Equation Shapes
•       Flowchart
•       Stars and Banners
•       Callouts
•       Action Buttons

To draw an object on your worksheet, click on the desired drawing object button and with your left mouse button held down, drag the object onto your worksheet until it is the size that you want.   

1.  Activate the worksheet onto which you want to place an Autoshape.
2. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
3. Click the Shapes button on the Illustrations group on the Ribbon.
4. Click the shape that you want to add from the Shapes gallery.
5. Click on the worksheet and draw the shape until it is the desired size.

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