How To Insert Picture On Excel

Microsoft is working on a pretty cool feature in Excel. The feature will allow you to insert data from a picture into Excel. According to Microsoft, this feature will work on Excel for iPhone, Excel of Androids, and Excel for Android Tablets.

• Insert Multiple Pictures Into Excel
• How To Insert Picture On Excel Spreadsheet
• How To Insert Picture On Excel Spreadsheet

Here's how you'll be able to turn your picture data into an Excel table.

1. You will open Excel and click on the Insert data from picture button on the Excel ribbon.
2. Let's say you want to copy the data from a printed paper. Take a picture of the spreadsheet, or portion of data, that you want to insert into Excel.
   
3. Excel's AI engine will process the image and convert it to an Excel table.
4. If there are any issues with the picture you will be able to correct it by clicking Edit, otherwise you will click Ignore to proceed.
5. Press Insert and your data will show up in Excel. Pretty cool, eh?
   

• On the Insert tab, click on Illustrations Pictures. Select the Illustrations Pictures option under Insert. Now browse to the image that's stored on your computer and insert it. Use the Insert button to insert the image into your spreadsheet.
• To insert one of the located images into the current Excel worksheet, click its thumbnail to select it (shown by the check mark in the box in the upper-left corner and then click the Insert button (or you can simply double-click the thumbnail).
• Many Excel users are familiar with lookup functions such as VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH to look up information in a list. But how about performing a picture lookup to return a picture dependent upon the contents of a cell. This requires a little extra thought as a standard VLOOKUP is not capable of returning a picture from a list.

Insert a Picture in Excel Comment. Here are the steps to insert a picture in Excel Comment: In the worksheet, select the cell in which you want to insert the comment. Right-click on the cell and select Insert Comment. This will insert a comment in the cell. You can also use the keyboard shortcut – Shift + F2.

Check out this video from Microsoft for a preview of this feature.

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Excel is generally said to be used for making complex calculations with formula and other functions. However, many times you may need to insert an image and picture in excel worksheet to give a visual representation of what is written in the excel. In this blog, we would learn how to insert an image or picture in an Excel cell. We would also unlock the technique to lock an image or picture into an excel cell such that when we resize or filter the cells containing the image, the picture automatically gets resized or filtered along with that cell.

This technique is very useful for creating a business product catalog with the product name in a cell and its image in the adjacent cell.

The below demonstration is the glimpse of what we are going to achieve in this blog.

Please download the practice file using ‘Download' button below.

Let us now first unlock the technique to insert and resize the image in a cell in Excel.

Insert Image or Picture in Cell in Excel

Follow the below steps to add an image in excel:

Under the excel ribbon options, click on the ‘Insert‘ tab and under the ‘Illustration‘ group, click on the ‘Pictures‘ button.

As a result, the ‘Insert Picture‘ dialog box would appear on your screen. Navigate to the path which contains the pictures, select all of them, and then click on the ‘Insert' button. Refer to the image below:

You would notice that the selected pictures gets inserted in to the excel worksheet.

The next step now is to place the pictures in the relevant cells in Excel. To do this, left-click on the picture and drag it to the relevant cell and finally release the mouse cursor. Refer to the below demonstration.

Once the pictures are put in relevant cells, the next step is to resize it to fit the image or picture in the cell. The two most common ways that almost everybody is aware of are-

• By adjusting the picture borders by using the circles on the edges and borders of the image.
• By manually entering the height and width of the picture under the ‘Format' tab.

Interesting Way to Exactly Fit Image or Picture to Cell Borders

The third and the interesting way to exactly fit the image or picture to excel cell walls is this one –

• Click on the image, and press and hold the ALT key on your keyboard.
• Do not release the ALT press, and simply drag the image toward the top-left corner of the cell. As you come closure to the cell corner, the image would automatically stick exactly to the cell's top-left corner.
• Again, do not release the ALT press, and drag the bottom-right corner of the image toward the bottom-right corner of cell. See the demonstration below.

With this, we have completed the technique of inserting an image into the cell in Excel.

Now, let us perform one small activity, to understand something interesting.

Here's how you'll be able to turn your picture data into an Excel table.

1. You will open Excel and click on the Insert data from picture button on the Excel ribbon.
2. Let's say you want to copy the data from a printed paper. Take a picture of the spreadsheet, or portion of data, that you want to insert into Excel.
   
3. Excel's AI engine will process the image and convert it to an Excel table.
4. If there are any issues with the picture you will be able to correct it by clicking Edit, otherwise you will click Ignore to proceed.
5. Press Insert and your data will show up in Excel. Pretty cool, eh?
   

• On the Insert tab, click on Illustrations Pictures. Select the Illustrations Pictures option under Insert. Now browse to the image that's stored on your computer and insert it. Use the Insert button to insert the image into your spreadsheet.
• To insert one of the located images into the current Excel worksheet, click its thumbnail to select it (shown by the check mark in the box in the upper-left corner and then click the Insert button (or you can simply double-click the thumbnail).
• Many Excel users are familiar with lookup functions such as VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH to look up information in a list. But how about performing a picture lookup to return a picture dependent upon the contents of a cell. This requires a little extra thought as a standard VLOOKUP is not capable of returning a picture from a list.

Insert a Picture in Excel Comment. Here are the steps to insert a picture in Excel Comment: In the worksheet, select the cell in which you want to insert the comment. Right-click on the cell and select Insert Comment. This will insert a comment in the cell. You can also use the keyboard shortcut – Shift + F2.

Check out this video from Microsoft for a preview of this feature.

Copyright © 2019 SeattlePro Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Excel is generally said to be used for making complex calculations with formula and other functions. However, many times you may need to insert an image and picture in excel worksheet to give a visual representation of what is written in the excel. In this blog, we would learn how to insert an image or picture in an Excel cell. We would also unlock the technique to lock an image or picture into an excel cell such that when we resize or filter the cells containing the image, the picture automatically gets resized or filtered along with that cell.

This technique is very useful for creating a business product catalog with the product name in a cell and its image in the adjacent cell.

The below demonstration is the glimpse of what we are going to achieve in this blog.

Please download the practice file using ‘Download' button below.

Let us now first unlock the technique to insert and resize the image in a cell in Excel.

Insert Image or Picture in Cell in Excel

Follow the below steps to add an image in excel:

Under the excel ribbon options, click on the ‘Insert‘ tab and under the ‘Illustration‘ group, click on the ‘Pictures‘ button.

As a result, the ‘Insert Picture‘ dialog box would appear on your screen. Navigate to the path which contains the pictures, select all of them, and then click on the ‘Insert' button. Refer to the image below:

You would notice that the selected pictures gets inserted in to the excel worksheet.

The next step now is to place the pictures in the relevant cells in Excel. To do this, left-click on the picture and drag it to the relevant cell and finally release the mouse cursor. Refer to the below demonstration.

Once the pictures are put in relevant cells, the next step is to resize it to fit the image or picture in the cell. The two most common ways that almost everybody is aware of are-

• By adjusting the picture borders by using the circles on the edges and borders of the image.
• By manually entering the height and width of the picture under the ‘Format' tab.

Interesting Way to Exactly Fit Image or Picture to Cell Borders

The third and the interesting way to exactly fit the image or picture to excel cell walls is this one –

• Click on the image, and press and hold the ALT key on your keyboard.
• Do not release the ALT press, and simply drag the image toward the top-left corner of the cell. As you come closure to the cell corner, the image would automatically stick exactly to the cell's top-left corner.
• Again, do not release the ALT press, and drag the bottom-right corner of the image toward the bottom-right corner of cell. See the demonstration below.

With this, we have completed the technique of inserting an image into the cell in Excel.

Now, let us perform one small activity, to understand something interesting.

Simply, try to resize the column with contains the images (column B). You would notice that the image would not automatically resize along with the cell. It remains intact at the same position. Similarly, if you filter column A, the images in column B would not accordingly filter, as demonstrated below:

Reason – At this point in time, the picture is not a part of the cell, but it is placed above the cell in the worksheet.

To lock the picture into the cell in Excel, so that it can be resized and filtered along with the cell, follow the below section of the blog.

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How to Lock Picture or Image Into Excel Cell

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To lock the image or picture in excel cell, we need to change the properties of the image. Below steps would help you in this:

How To Insert Picture On Excel Spreadsheet

Lock Picture / Image Into Excel Cell

1. Select All Images

   Select any picture and press Ctrl + A to select all the images in the worksheet.

2. Size and Properties

   Right click on any of the image and click on the option – ‘Size and Properties'.
   

3. Format Picture > Move and Size with Cell Option

   A ‘Format Picture' pane would appear on the right of the worksheet. Expand the ‘Properties' section, and select the radio button ‘Move and Size with Cells‘ and that's it, the image is now the part of the cell.
   

How To Insert Picture On Excel Spreadsheet

This means, if you now resize the cell, the image would also get resized accordingly. Similarly, the images in the filtered cell would also hide along with the cell.

With this, we have reached the end of this blog. Now, make your own business catalog with the images as a part of your cell. Share your views and comments in the comment section.