![]() Hover over a style to see a limitation in Office’s SVG support. Live Preview will change the graphic as you hover over each selection. Graphics Styles – there’s a gallery of preset color choices. This is in Office already as ‘Change Picture’ on the Picture Tools ribbon or right-click menu. What’s different from a usual JPG or GIF image is the ribbon which shows Graphics | Format options with some editing choices on the left.Ĭhange Graphic – exchange the current graphic for another image or graphic. ![]() We chose this SVG because it shows some limitations in the Microsoft Office SVG support. It’s a clever and educational use of SVG animation – open the link in a modern browser and click on the buttons. Once inserted it looks like a standard image and you have all the usual sizing, positioning, rotate, layer, wrapping and cropping options. Inserting an SVG into an Office document is the same as any other image. In other words, it rewrites part of the XML description you saw above. You can change the graphics settings to change the look of the graphic. Office doesn’t just import the SVG and display it in your Word, Excel or PowerPoint document. SVG files can be animated or combined with video, CSS and Javascript. Of course, normally SVG’s are very complicated and are drawn in graphics programs not hand-coded. That means the SVG can be as small or large as you need without loss of quality. If you change the width/height settings, the circle is redrawn to a new size. It’s the description of a green circle with blue edge. For example, here’s what you’ll find inside a simple SVG Instead of dots or pixels to make an image, each SVG file contains instructions for what to draw on the screen or page. ![]() SVG are graphics or drawings, not photos or images that you might take with your camera. Sadly no support for animations or interactive features of SVG. Still graphics onlyīefore SVG aficionados get too excited … Office 2016 for Windows only supports static SVG graphics. The limitations you won’t see mentioned in their hype. We’ll show how to use SVG’s in Word, Excel and PowerPoint but also the limitations in Microsoft’s work. Now it’s finally here, it’s nice to see that Microsoft has done a decent job … up to a point. SVG support has been a long time coming to Office. That means you’ll be able to make your documents look even better with vector-based SVG files that won’t pixelate when increased in size. ![]() Preview/Insiders can try them now and it’ll be available to all Office 365 subscribers in 2017. Office 2016 for Windows will soon support scalable vector graphics (SVGs). ![]()
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