Watermark Excel 2007

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I want to add a watermark to my Excel 2007 Spreadsheets, can you help?

Excel 2007 has no explicit command that you can use to create a watermark. However, there is a way to simulate a watermark using some of the commands on the Header & Footer Design Ribbon. For example, say you would like to mark all pages of a printed worksheet with an image.

Follow these steps:

Click anywhere in the worksheet.

Image of mouse over Insert TabClick the Insert tab
Image of mouse over Header & Footer IconClick Header & Footer in the Text group.
Under Header, click in the Center section
Image of selected Centre Section
Image of mouse over Picture IconClick the Picture Icon,
Image of Insert Picture Dialogue Boxnavigate to the file containing the picture
Image of mouse over the Insert Buttonclick Insert
Image of mouse over Format Picture Icon Click Format Picture in the Header & Footer group.
Image of Format Picture Dialogue Box Click the Picture tab and then click the Color drop-down list.
Image of Color dropdown menu select Washout from the Color drop-down list.
Image of mouse over OK Button Click OK.

Excel will include the watermark on all printed pages of the worksheet

Image of watermark in place

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