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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / June 2007Insert Picture
In Excel 2003, I have a form to which I Insert a Picture from a File. The picture is a TIF (it's a scanned signature). When the picture is inserted, its background is white/opaque. If I select a transparent color (white) from the toolbar, the background disappears, and the grid and form lines are visible underneath the signature. The question is, how can I modify the TIF drawing such that the background is transparent when inserted such that I do not have to go through the extra steps each time? I hoped that I could select the picture, which Excel modifies on insertion, and do a File | Save As, but that function is not available. What is the native format of the picture in Excel after it is inserted? Hopefully this question makes sense! Excel won't save the *.TIF file You must edit that in your favorite graphics application to the transparent background. OR...........record a macro while you Insert the picture then modify. Assign that macro to a button or shortcut key combo. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP >In Excel 2003, I have a form to which I Insert a Picture from a File. >The picture is a TIF (it's a scanned signature). When the picture is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Hopefully this question makes sense! > Excel won't save the *.TIF file > > You must edit that in your favorite graphics application to the transparent > background. The question is a little more complicated than that. Even though the picture is imported in TIF format, it appears that Excel internally converts it to some other format. If I knew what format it was expecting, I could probably do the conversion externally. I seem to recall that the TIF format does not allow transparency, but that recollection could be wrong. PNG and GIF do have transparency, so maybe Excel is converting to one of those. |
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