Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. You cannot print a background graphic for a Excel worksheet

You cannot print a background graphic for a Excel worksheet

For a Microsoft Excel 95 version of this article, see 134212 .

↑ Back to the top

Symptoms

When you print a worksheet that contains a background graphic in Microsoft Excel, the graphic is not printed. The background graphic is also not displayed in print preview.

↑ Back to the top

Cause

This issue occurs because background graphics cannot be printed in Excel.

↑ Back to the top

More Information

To add a graphic to the background of an Excel worksheet, follow these steps:
  1. Open the worksheet in Excel.
  2. On the Format menu, click Sheet, and then click Background.

    Note In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, click Background in the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab.
  3. Select the graphic that you want to appear as the sheet background, and then click OK.

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: kb, kbbillprodsweep, kbprint, kbprb, kboffice12yes, kbfreshness2006, kbexpertisebeginner

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 213977
Revision : 10
Created on : 8/20/2020
Published on : 8/20/2020
Exists online : False
Views : 148