Reader Ron Peterson, CPA, an accounting and systems manager with American Crystal Sugar Co. in Moorhead, Minnesota, called my attention to an error in last August’s issue. I said there was no convenient way to create a watermark in Excel. In fact, there is. It’s a little more obscure than in Word, but here are the steps: Click on File, Page Setup and Options . Then, depending on your Excel edition or printer setup (some printers add their own watermark function), either click on Effects or Advanced . In Excel 2003 this screen pops up with several buttons, one of which contains a watermark icon ( Copy ):
Click on that button to open the setup screen for the watermark, as shown in the following screenshot:
In earlier versions of Excel, clicking on Effects will produce a screen that has a watermark icon in the lower right corner.