Fortunately you can adjust this behavior by locking a picture to a cell in Excel 2011. Our guide below will show you how to modify your spreadsheet picture to achieve this result.  

Locking a Picture to a Cell in Excel 2011

The steps in this article were written for and performed on the Excel 2011 version of the software, for the Mac. The steps are similar for Windows versions. You can read here to learn about locking pictures to cells in Excel 2010. Once you have completed the steps below, the picture in the cell will resize with the rest of the cells in its row or column, and will be included if you cut and paste a row or column to a different location in the worksheet. Here is how to lock a picture to a cell in Excel 2011 –   These steps are also shown below with pictures – Step 1: Open your worksheet in Excel 2011.   Step 2: Find the picture that you want to lock to a cell.

    Step 3: Resize the row and column so that the picture is contained entirely within the cell. You can resize a row by clicking and dragging the one of the borders of the row number, and you can resize a column by clicking and dragging one of the borders around the column letter.

    Step 4: Right-click the picture, then click the Format Picture option.

    Step 5: Click Properties in the column at the left side of the window.

    Step 6: Click the circle to the left of Move and size with cells, then click the OK button at the bottom of the window.

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