I've been digging through google as well as MS's support site and the various
newsgroups, public and private, and haven't found any suggestions for this.
I've found the question asked, but never answered...

Is there any way when putting a background image in an excel file to keep it
from shooting the file size up to several meg?

An empty XLS file that starts out as 13.5K turns out to be 3.4 MB with the
inclusion of a 10k GIF as a background.

Thanks for any suggestions. Just looking into an option for someone who
wanted a background image for a template for some documents they habitually
do. And since the watermarks are on top of the text, they didn't want a
watermark.

There's not a concern about printing, though we did find a handy macro to let
it print as well if you want, but these are mostly just computer only, won't
see paper, so printing wasn't an issue even before we found that solution.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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John D [MVP - Tablet PC]