When you create a drawing object in Excel, you create a default version of the object, meaning that the object has the program’s usual color or pattern filling its interior. If you want to change the object’s appearance, you can select from a series of built-in styles that control the image’s fill color, outline, and text color. You can change these colors or patterns to bring the object’s appearance in line with your company’s color scheme or to make an object stand out from its surroundings.
Apply a Shape Style
Click the object you want to format.
Click the Format tab.
In the Shape Styles group on the ribbon, click the style you want to apply.
Tip
You can display the entire Shape Styles gallery by clicking the gallery’s More button.
Apply a Fill
Click the shape you want to fill.
Click the Format tab.
Click the Shape Fill down arrow and use the controls in the menu that appears to pick a fill color, gradient, or texture.
Click the color with which you want to fill the object.
Tip
Textures are a great way to apply a gentle, overall pattern to an object without interfering with any text or image already positioned in the object.
Fill an Object with a Picture
Click the object you want to fill.
If necessary, click the Format tab.
Click Shape Fill.
Click Picture.
Navigate to where the picture you want is located.