Use the freeform tool to make a 3-D version of your company logo. Episode 407 shows you how.
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Transcript of the video:
Hey, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast, I'm Bill Jelen.
Have a great Excel 2003 trick for you today, and this could be used to work on your own company logo or whatever, today I'm going to do kind of a holiday themed event.
I've inserted some ClipArt here just temporarily, because I want something to trace.
On the Drawing toolbar, I'm going to go to AutoShapes, and then down to Lines, and choose the Freeform line, now this is a little bit tedious to go through it.
Basically, what you're going to do is, you're going to trace the ClipArt, so I'll click here once, and then go down to the next corner, and down to the next corner, and down to the next corner.
I'm going to keep going, now Laura who edits the podcast, she's going to cut out everything until I'm almost done, so I'll see you in a minute.
OK hey, welcome back, that was quick!
Now, when you finally get done, you need to click back on the original point, and Excel will create a shape.
So, instead of using the Basic Shapes, you can go ahead and create your own shape, and provide your logo as a nice simple shape that you can outline.
If you have curves, you want to click multiple times around the curve to try and improve on the look of the shape.
Now that we have the shape, of course, we can use the Fill button to fill that with a color, and then also all sorts of interesting 3D styles.
And so we can choose to make our logo into, you know, a 3D-looking thing.
If you choose 3D settings, you get a great Dialogue box here, where you can actually increase the amount of depth, or decrease the amount of depth, or change the perspective, or rotate around the axis, or whatever you'd like to do, so.
We usually think of Excel as a Drawing tool, but you can actually create really cool stylized logos, turn them into 3D, and really make your next report pop!
Hey, thanks for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel!
Have a great Excel 2003 trick for you today, and this could be used to work on your own company logo or whatever, today I'm going to do kind of a holiday themed event.
I've inserted some ClipArt here just temporarily, because I want something to trace.
On the Drawing toolbar, I'm going to go to AutoShapes, and then down to Lines, and choose the Freeform line, now this is a little bit tedious to go through it.
Basically, what you're going to do is, you're going to trace the ClipArt, so I'll click here once, and then go down to the next corner, and down to the next corner, and down to the next corner.
I'm going to keep going, now Laura who edits the podcast, she's going to cut out everything until I'm almost done, so I'll see you in a minute.
OK hey, welcome back, that was quick!
Now, when you finally get done, you need to click back on the original point, and Excel will create a shape.
So, instead of using the Basic Shapes, you can go ahead and create your own shape, and provide your logo as a nice simple shape that you can outline.
If you have curves, you want to click multiple times around the curve to try and improve on the look of the shape.
Now that we have the shape, of course, we can use the Fill button to fill that with a color, and then also all sorts of interesting 3D styles.
And so we can choose to make our logo into, you know, a 3D-looking thing.
If you choose 3D settings, you get a great Dialogue box here, where you can actually increase the amount of depth, or decrease the amount of depth, or change the perspective, or rotate around the axis, or whatever you'd like to do, so.
We usually think of Excel as a Drawing tool, but you can actually create really cool stylized logos, turn them into 3D, and really make your next report pop!
Hey, thanks for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel!
