Pictures
This section contains examples that demonstrate how to add pictures to a spreadsheet document.
- How to: Insert and Delete Pictures
- How to: Modify a Picture
- How to: Replace a Worksheet Picture
- How to: Add a Hyperlink to a Picture
Supported Image Formats
The Spreadsheet Document API supports the following types of images.
- Bitmap (*.bmp, *.dib)
- JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg, *.jpeg)
- Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
- Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
- Tagged Image File Format (*.tif, *.tiff)
- Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (*.emf)
- Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg)
Limitations
SVG images are preserved as vector graphics when you export documents to Open XML formats (XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, and XLTM). When exporting to non-Open XML formats, SVG images are rasterized.
Spreadsheet Document API does not support pictures embedded in cells.