(Originally published on August 25, 2022 by Elisabetta Caldesi)
Hi, Insiders! My name is Elisabetta Caldesi, and I’m a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to share with you a new function, called IMAGE, which returns an image within a cell.
We’ve received a lot of feedback about the wish to be able to insert images in cells, and we’re happy to deliver! Your images can now be part of the worksheet, instead of floating on top. You can move and resize cells, sort and filter, and work with images within an Excel table. This improvement unlocks and facilitates many new scenarios, such as tracking inventories, creating employee dashboards, or building games and brackets.
The IMAGE function inserts images into cells from a source location, along with alternative text. All you need to do is type the following into a cell:
=IMAGE(source, [alt_text], [sizing], [height], [width])
where:
=IMAGE("https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/2d9e717a-0077-438f-8e5e-f85a1305d4ad.jpg", "Sphere")
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Cylinder
=IMAGE(B1,B2,0)
The IMAGE function is available to Insiders running the following Beta Channel builds:
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As you use the preview of the new IMAGE function in Excel, we hope you will join us in this journey. Click Help > Feedback in Excel to share your feedback and help us prioritize our work.
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