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Offline fireman912

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Custom model video
« on: April 30, 2016, 09:14:51 AM »
I am looking for the custom model video someone made that showed exactly how to put a picture in excel and make it transparent then you could just type in the channel numbers. I set the picture as a background image in excel then started adding in the channels but as i move around the picture the cells begin to move all the previous ones i entered. Not sure what im doing wrong. I found some videos that explain how to do it in excel but not how to actually make the image transparent and how to stop the cells from moving everything over as you add all the channels.

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Offline Gilrock

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Re: Custom model video
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2016, 09:20:02 AM »
Its probably easiest to just search on google for how to add a background image since there are so many different Excel versions you can search for your specific version.  The problem I had with it is Excel doesn't seem to let you move the image around or scale it or add margins so it kinda sucks to have to keep editing the photo in another tool and importing it into Excel till you like it.

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Re: Custom model video
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2016, 09:43:02 AM »
Yes i figured out how to add it as a back ground image but when i got half way around the picture of typing in the numbers it was slowly sliding all the columns over from adding the numbers so its throwing the whole model off. I purchased the smaller 16" snowflakes from boscoyo and trying to make the models.

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Re: Custom model video
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2016, 10:17:56 AM »
Clyde did a video on exactly how to do this.

His website is https://www.leechburglights.com/

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Re: Custom model video
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2016, 10:51:21 AM »
Thank you for the link