Watermarks in Excel

[Will Fleenor]

With MS Word (97-2007) you can place a command (see below) in the header or
footer (Ctrl-F9) that will tell your printer with PostScript drivers to put
a watermark on the page.

Can you issue a PostScript print command in an Excel header or footer? (I
don't think so.)

If not is there any other way (other than VBA code) to send a PostScript
printer command while sending an excel print print request?

Thanks Will

Example of a command that can be placed in the header or footer of a Word
document to place a watermark in each page of the printout.

Print \p page " /Wmark (DRAFT) def /WSize 100 def /Wrot 45 def wp$x wp$right
sub wp$left add 2 div wp$y wp$top sub wp$bottom add 2 div translate Wrot
rotate /Helvetica-BoldOblique findfont WSize scalefont setfont .7 setgray 3
setlinewidth Wmark stringwidth pop 2 div neg WSize .4 mul neg moveto Wmark
true charpath stroke

 

[NickHK]

Will,
AFAIK the PS formatting will not work.

Maybe one of these methods as a workaround:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=print+watermark+excel&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

My Adobe Acrobat v6 supports adding watermarks to a document. If you
automated the printing of the PDF through its objects, I suppose you can add
the watermark in code - I've never tried.

NickHK