Perhaps the most useful of all the drawing tools is the Arrow Tool. When you feel different fonts, cell backgrounds, font colors are not enough to draw the viewer's attention to a place in your spreadsheet, you might consider placing an arrow pointing to the portion needing additional highlighting. The arrow just may be the tool of choice.

By clicking on the Arrow Tool in the Drawing toolbar you activate Excel's drawing feature for making arrows. Note the arrow tool and the line tool are very similar. Be sure to click on the tool of choice!

Once you have selected the Arrow tool, you begin by clicking at an appropriate starting point for the arrow. You drag in the general direction the arrow should point. You will be able to make adjustments by clicking on either end of the arrow and extending the length of the arrow or the direction the arrow should point.

The initial click places the beginning point and when you release the mouse you will be setting the location of the tip of the arrow.

Just like the Line Tool, the Arrow Tool has attributes you can change.

Choose this button to select the Styles	Choose this button to select the different Colors	Choose this button to select the different Segments	Choose this button to customize the Arrow

This is an example of the arrow shown above having changed the color, style, and also been customized. It's hard to imaging anyone not pulled to look at whatever you point to with this arrow on your spreadsheet!

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