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17 February, 2022

Picture in Picture in Excel Worksheet

What if you need to highlight/call attention to any fragment of your worksheet, be it a piece of data table or a picture/chart, for a presentation or just for printing a report?

You can do it quite easily in Excel. Let's consider a picture. You may need to overlay an enlarged small fragment of your picture onto the original whole picture. To do that you can use the Windows "Snip & Sketch" utility (the shortcut to invoke it, is: Windows Logo key + SHIFT + S). You can select either rectangular or free-form snip. After getting the snip, format/enlarge it as needed, in a way attracting attention to it, and move it to a desired position. This is an example of the 'picture in picture':

The same can be done also with any chart/graphics.

If you want e.g. to cut out a small fragment of a table and format/enlarge it, then the simple way to do it is by copying the fragment and paste it over the table (or anywhere else) as a picture (use this shortcut: ALT+H+V+U for pasting). It is a FLOATING picture, so it can be moved around and formatted at your will. Here's an example:



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