Thanks, but no, in normal or page break view you see a giant DRAFT diagonally
across the page. This document seems to be locked in some way, it may have
been coded or something.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Are you in pagebreak preview mode and see large gray numbers like 1, 2, 3
etc?

ViewNormal will get rid of these.

If something else....................

If you are sure it is not FormatSheetBackground then try
F5SpecialObjectsDelete

Note: this will delete all objects

Try first on a copy of the sheet.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:26:02 -0700, Karin
wrote:

Hi,

I've got a 2003 XP Excel file with a Draft watermark on it - it is not in
header, it is not background, it does not appear to be word art - but if it
is word art how would I select it to delete it?

I cannot get rid of the mark and I'm going crazy! I'm going to have to copy
and paste and redo 12 sheets.

TIA!