Not an Excel feature
Even adding a watermark is not that simple
Best think of another way.
Maybe have a helper column with V (valid) of I (invalid).
You could use this column to conditional format the name cell
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example: have a name (john doe) ie of a strikethrough, can I type VOID
over
it in italic or something.