Basic Shapes

[jaybee]

I want to import a picture into excel 2003, cover it with a basic shape,
square, rectangle, or whatever, put a hart shape over the basic shape and be
able to see the picture or part of it in the hart.

 

[FSt1]

hi,
what problems are you having?
the pricture should be on top of everything else. do the shape, then the
heart, then the picture.
you can right click each object and click order. you will see send to
front(picture), send to back(shape) then lay the three over each other. shape
in back heart in middle picture in front.
because right now on my xl screen, i have a red square (which i got from the
drawing menu) with a orange heart(clip art) and inside the heart i have a
little puppy peeing on a laptop.(personal file). real cute.

hope this helped
regards
FSt1

 

[Ken Johnson]

I want to import a picture into excel 2003, cover it with a basic shape,
square, rectangle, or whatever, put a hart shape over the basic shape and be
able to see the picture or part of it in the hart.

Office Shapes don't work like that, but it's still doable.
You need to use the bezier tool (freeform builder) to draw a rectangle
that is large enough to cover the left side of the picture.
Right click the rectangle then select Edit Points and Add two extra
points to the rectangle's right side. Position the first of these
extra points where you want the heart's cusp to be. Position the
second where you want the heart's pointed end to be.
Use Edit Points to make these two points Corner Points, then adjust
there handles so that you end up with a rectangle that has half of a
heart shape cut out of its right side.
Add the desired fill color and make the line color the same.
Duplicate this shape, then horizontally flip the duplicate.
Position the rectangle and its flipped duplicate so that their tops
are aligned and their opposite sides (heart cut-out sides) are just
touching.
Group the two rectangles then adjust the order so that the group is
covering the picture.

Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson