Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front in Excel

When you have multiple drawing objects on a worksheet, you may want to change the order in which they appear. For example, you may want a shape that's in the background to move to the front, or vice versa. To do this, you can use the Bring To Front and Send To Back commands.

To bring a drawing object to the front or send it to the back:

Select the drawing object that you want to move.
On the Format tab, in the Arrange group, click Bring To Front or Send To Back.

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To	Do this
Bring a drawing object in front of all other objects on its layer	Click Bring Forward (in the Arrange group on the Format tab). You can keep clicking until the object is in front of all other objects on its layer.
Bring a drawing object in front of all other objects on all layers	Click Bring To Front (in the Arrange group on the Format tab). You can keep clicking until the object is in front of all other objects on all layers.
Send a drawing object behind all other objects on its layer	Click Send Backward (in the Arrange group on the Format tab). You can keep clicking until the object is behind all other objects on its layer.