Originally Posted by thimblebug6000
Squares I understand, but how do you do curved lines or triangles in an excel spreadsheet?
Curved - probably out of luck. Triangles, you can use the drawing tool (View - Toolbars - Drawing), and draw straight lines through squares, and voila, you have triangles. I mainly use it when I'm thinking about buying fabric online and want to see how it looks together. I'll take a "swatch" of it from the website, cut it to size in Paint, and paste it into Excel. That way I can move it around easily (which is difficult in Paint after you do the initial work).