Can an excel cell contain image

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I would not go as far to say, that this is not possible, but there are limitations.

You can assign a picture to a cell.

Choose a picture through Insert-Tab -> Picture and insert it to a worksheet.

Now make your desired cell so big it could fit your thumbnail sized picture and resize your picture inside of excel.

Cut&Paste it into your cell, then select Size & Properties of this picture and go to properties. Watchout, that you don’t just link the picture (you can see the option with the small arrow besides the insert-button).

Here you can define how this picture is going to be adapted in size and position.

You want to select related to size & position of cell or something like that (having german verion of 2007, so sorry if not everything is to the point).

Other options would be related to cell-position or unrelated.

Now as I tested this, my demo picture could resize to a smaller size but not to a bigger, but once placed in a specific cell, it stayed there.

However, I am sure the insert-process could be optimized and even automized.

Here is an example, in which a picture gets resized through cell-size: