Painting in Excel??

**smarch001** · 03-27-2009, 10:02 AM

I have created a design in excel with lines, ovals, etc. I have formatted the circles, ovals, and lines and now I would like to be able to color the empty, white spaces between the designs. Is there any type of paint brush that I can just color with?

Thanks!!

**shg** · 03-27-2009, 11:51 AM

Tools > Options > View, untick Gridlines. What's left is plain white.

**smarch001** · 03-27-2009, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by shg

Tools > Options > View, untick Gridlines. What's left is plain white.

Doing that erases the grindlines, but does not allow me to color without filling the whole cell. I am building a hole for a golf course and I would like to color the fairway green. The fairway has a curve in it that I designed with the curve tool, but I can't figure out how to color it since it doesn't follow the cell shapes. I would like to just go in there and paint it regardless of the cells.

Is that possible?

**Andy Pope** · 03-27-2009, 12:46 PM

can you post example so we can see how you have constructed things and what bits you want coloured.

Although I would guess you are going to have to transfer the image to a proper drawing program in order to complete this.

**shg** · 03-27-2009, 12:47 PM

If you have shapes on the worksheet, and the background is white (either because the cells are uncolored and therefore white, or deliberately colored white), then you have colored shapes on a white background, which is what I thought you asked.

In any case, there is no paint brush in Excel.

**Jorozco** · 03-27-2009, 03:36 PM

you can do a "free hand" curve or shape, give the shape you want it, and then push it backwards, so the rest of shapes are on top.

**kierenschneider** · 03-28-2009, 08:54 AM

Just make sure that the shapes you make are solid and not lines and then you can select the required colour as apposed to filling the colour like a paint program.

It works on 2007, not sure about others.