Here's a copy of a reply to this subject from Ron de Bruin,

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You can use Word Art, remove the lines, color with 25% gray, click
semi-transparent (or in latest version set the transparency to your
desire).
Rotate to desired angle. On the screen, when you type over the mark, it
looks a bit fuzzy but prints out wonderfully

If you have many to do try this:

Here is some code from L. Howard Kittle.

In this Zip file you can find 4 example workbooks with code to insert
watermarks in to your pages.

1 : Watermark Horizontal LANDSCAPE
2 : Watermark Horizontal PORTRAIT
3 : Watermark Vertical LANDSCAPE
4 : Watermark Vertical PORTRAIT

You can download it here.

http://www.rondebruin.nl/files/Watermark.zip

Regards Ron de Bruin
(Win XP Pro SP-1 XL2002 SP-2)
www.rondebruin.nl

End Ron's posting.....................

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:48:04 -0700, "yfnw"
wrote:

need to superimpose "draft" across excel pages
suggestions?