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Insert and Format Graphics and Shapes | Microsoft Excel Chapter 8 More Skills: SKILL 14 | Page 1 of 2

� You can insert many types of objects into a worksheet—for example, PDF documents,PowerPoint presentations, and Word documents.

� You can share content from a presentation by inserting a PowerPoint slide into a worksheet.

To complete this workbook, you will need the following files:� e08_Legislation� e08_Legislation_Slide

You will save your workbook as:� Lastname_Firstname_e08_Legislation

1. Start Excel, and then open the student data file e08_Legislation. Save the file in your ExcelChapter 8 folder with the name Lastname_Firstname_e08_Legislation

2. Read the information on Sheet1, and then display Sheet2. Click cell A1. Display the Inserttab, and then in the Text group, click the Object button. In the Object dialog box, click theCreate from File tab, and then compare your screen with Figure 1.

The Create from File tab is used to insert files into spreadsheets so that you can lateredit the file using the program that originally created the file.

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More Skills 14 Insert PowerPoint Slides into Worksheets

Figure 1

Link to file

File nameinserted here

Create fromFile tab

Display as icon

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3. In the Object dialog box, click Browse. In the Browse dialog box, locate your student datafiles, click e08_Legislation_Slide, and then click Insert. In the Object dialog box, verify thatthe Link to File and Display as Icon check boxes are cleared, and then click OK.

The Link to File option links the original PowerPoint file so that any changes made to theoriginal PowerPoint slide will be reflected in the workbook. The Display as Icon optiondisplays an icon instead of the actual slide. In the workbook, the slide would be displayedby clicking the icon.

4. Resize the PowerPoint slide so that it fills the range A1:K25. Compare your screen withFigure 2.

Figure 2

PowerPoint slideinserted and

resized

5. Right-click on the Sheet1 sheet tab, and then click Rename. Type Process and then pressJ. Rename the Sheet2 sheet tab as Slide and then delete the Sheet3 worksheet.

6. Select the two worksheets, and insert the file name in the left footer of both worksheets.Select cell K1, and return to Normal view. Ungroup the worksheets, and display the Slideworksheet tab.

7. Save your workbook, and then print or submit the file as directed by your instructor.

8. Exit Excel.

� You have completed More Skills 14