In Excel 2016 and Excel 2013, you can also add an image from web pages and online storages such as OneDrive, Facebook and Flickr. Insert an image from a computer. Inserting a picture stored on your computer into your Excel worksheet is easy. All you have to do is these 3 quick steps: In your Excel spreadsheet, click where you want to put a picture. Now, you have the Camera button on the Quick Access Toolbar: To save an Excel table as image using Camera, just do the following: Select a range of cells you want to capture. To make a photo of a chart, select the cells surrounding it. Click on the Camera; Click anywhere in the worksheet where you want to place a snapshot.
Using the Camera Function in Microsoft Excel
The camera tool allows you to take a snapshot of any selected range of data, table, or graph, and paste it as a linked picture.
The pasted snapshot can be formatted and resized using picture tools. They can be copied and pasted into Word and PowerPoint documents as well.
Enabling the camera function in Excel 2010:
In order to use this feature, you need to make the Camera button appear on the Excel Quick Access Toolbar, because it is not present by default. Head over to Quick Access Toolbar and from the small drop down button, click More Commands...
Select Commands Not in the Ribbon
Scroll down the alphabetical list of commands and find Camera, click Add>> button and Click OK to close the Excel Options dialog box.
The camera icon now appears in the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the screen.
To use the camera, select the portion of the datasheet for which you want to take a snapshot of, and click the Camera button.
To paste the image, left-click the area where you would like the snapshot placed.
Now when you will select this image Picture Tools tab will appear, from where you can apply different styles and designs.
Apply the design and styles which best suites your worksheet image. You can apply shadowing, 3d effects, rotation, colours etc.
Well, that's how you can use Camera Function in Excel. Try it out yourself!!!
Excel has some pretty kick ass unique features and one of them is the Camera Tool.On the face of it, it looks like no big deal. But the camera tool when combined with a formula and options buttons, can help you make a pretty awesome dynamic chart
Let’s get right into it!
Revenue Split by Months and Customers
And we have made 2 charts from the above data
Our objective is to show one chart at a time (either Sales by Months or by Customer)
Connect the Option Buttons to a cell
Note that :
Now name this Formula as Pic.Choice
Caution: If you reposition the charts on the sheet. The range that you have selected the choose formula will no more be captured the chart
If you have found this a bit tricky, let me help you to get your head around this