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Watermark in Excel

By Jeevan A YJeevan A Y

Watermark in Excel

Excel Watermark (Table of Contents)

  • Introduction to Watermark in Excel
  • Insert Watermark in Excel
  • Insert Watermark to the Header of the Sheet

Introduction to Watermark in Excel

Watermarks are nothing but the light heading kind of text or image we usually see in word documents. You must be familiar with watermarks in Microsoft documents. In excel, too, we can add watermarks to our spreadsheets. The reason could be, you want to show your name in freelance work, you want to add your company logo or your identity to the document, or you just want to have fun with your document.

We can add text value as a watermark; we can also add an image as a watermark. For example, some of the common watermarks are Confidential, Sample, Draft, etc.…

In this article, we will demonstrate how to insert watermarks in excel, reposition them, alter the size of the watermark in excel, and add a company logo to your header and footer document; delete them those watermarks.

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Insert Watermark in Excel

You know that we don’t have any built-in tool to insert watermark in excel. I know you already thinking then how do we add a watermark in excel. Nothing to worry we can create our watermark and make it visible in the print preview. Follow the below steps to add a watermark to your excel sheet.

You can download this Watermark Excel Template here – Watermark Excel Template

Step 1: Open a new excel workbook on your computer or laptop. I have opened and created some dummy data.

Watermark(created some dummy data)

Step 2: Go to the VIEW tab > and click on Page Layout.

Watermark Example 1-2

Step 3: Now, you will see a worksheet like this.

Watermark (worksheet like this)

Step 4: Now go to INSERT tab > Under Text section select Insert Word Art.

Watermark ( select Insert Word Art)

Step 5: Select the style you wish to have.

Watermark(Select the style)

Step 6: Now, we have word art style appearing in the worksheet.

art style appearing

Step 7: Type the water text you wish to show.

water text

Note: Try to select a light color to make it fit the data table.

Step 8: Make the font color to grey and remove the outline as no outline.

font color to grey

Step 9: Change the angle of the shape as shown in the below image.

 angle of the shape

You have inserted your watermark to the worksheet. You can print this document along with the watermark in your worksheet.

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Insert Watermark to the Header of the Sheet

We have learned how to insert our own prepared watermark to the worksheet in excel. Now we will see how to insert a watermark image to the header of the document. For example, we usually see the company logo in the header of the document. Similarly, we can insert our own logo to the document by following the below steps.

Step 1: Go to the INSERT tab and select Header & Footer under the TEXT section.

 select Header & Footer

Step 2: Now, we see the Page Layout view with the Header & Footer design section.

 Page Layout view

Step 3: Now, under HEADER & Design Tools, select the option Picture.

Watermark(Design Tools select the option Picture)

Step 4: Excel asks you to find the picture on your computer and choose the picture online. I have taken the picture from my laptop. It will not display the image you have chosen; it will just show the word “& [Picture]”.

Watermark Example 2-4

Step 5: Click on any cell of the worksheet to see the image.

worksheet to see the image

Right now, the image has not fit properly; we need to format the image by repositioning the watermark.

Repositioning of Watermark

We need to adjust the image properly to make it appear accurately.

Step 1: Select the image you have inserted.

Watermark Example 2-6

Step 2: Go to Design and select Format Picture.

Watermark Example 2-7

Step 3: Make the adjustment of the height & width of the image.

height & width

Step 4: Now, we have the header formatted properly.

Excel

Move down the Image to make it a Watermark.

We can move down the watermark to the document’s centre to make it an actual watermark for your document.

Step 1: Select the image.

Watermark (Select the image)

Step 2: Keep pressing down to mark.

pressing down

Step 3: Select any of the cells in the worksheet to see the changes.

Watermark (changes)

Change the Existing Image

You can change the already inserted image at any point in time. Select the Watermark and double click on the Picture under the Design tab.

Watermark Example 2-13

After double-clicking on the image, you will see this dialogue box and click on Replace.

Watermark Example 2-14

Things to Remember About Watermark in Excel

  • If you want to design your own watermark, create word art and paste the word art to paint and save it as a JPEG file.
  • You can adjust the height & width of the image under Format Picture.
  • If you want to change the existing image, you need to double click on the Picture and select Replace option.

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