have a look here http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.xlFAQ0005.html
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Paul B
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"BusAdmAsst" wrote in message
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I am attempting to mimic a watermark in Excel, but I want to use text
("confidential") rather than a picture. "Help" gives good information on
inserting a picture to do this, but not how to do so with text.
Alternatively, if there were a jpeg file of the text "Confidential", I
could
use that.