{"id":1640,"date":"2026-02-24T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:35:11","slug":"ive-used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-this-extremely-useful-trick-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/ive-used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-this-extremely-useful-trick-image\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve used Excel for over a decade and didn&#8217;t know about this extremely useful trick: IMAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used Excel for over a decade and didn&#8217;t know about this extremely useful trick<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-extremely-useful-trick\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-extremely-useful-trick\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The IMAGE function is the core trick<\/li>\n<li>Use it as an API client<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s more to it than QR Codes<\/li>\n<li>Generate GitHub-style badges inside Excel<\/li>\n<li>Generate a chart that updates itself<\/li>\n<li>This time as an image<\/li>\n<li>Live weather report in your Excel sheet<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget your umbrella<\/li>\n<li>Profile pictures and placeholders<\/li>\n<li>When you need \u201csomething visual\u201d per row<\/li>\n<li>You can even make memes right inside Excel (because of course)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IMAGE function &#8211; Microsoft Support<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/image-function-7e112975-5e52-4f2a-b9da-1d913d51f5d5\" class=\"autohyperlink\">support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/image-function-7e112975-5e52-4f2a-b9da-1d913d51f5d5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used Excel for over a decade and didn&#8217;t know about this extremely useful trick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-extremely-useful-trick\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/used-excel-for-over-a-decade-and-didnt-know-about-extremely-useful-trick\/<\/a> The IMAGE function is the core trick Use it as an API client There&#8217;s more to it than QR Codes Generate GitHub-style badges inside Excel Generate a chart that updates itself This time as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-tools","tag-excel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 04:18:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}