Watermarking your images helps your viewers know that those images are actually captured by you even if they appear in some other person’s work. While you can use apps like Photoshop to add a watermark to an image, there are some dedicated watermarking apps for your Mac.
In many situations, you may want to insert watermark in Excel (such as your company’s logo or an image) before sharing it with others. In case you are sharing a WIP (work-in-progress) version of the report, you may want to place a WIP/Draft as the watermark in it.
While Excel does not have a dedicated feature to insert watermark in Excel, it can be easily achieved by using the Header & Footer sections in Excel. How to Worksheets In this tutorial, I will show you:. How to Insert Watermark in Excel Worksheets?. How to Reposition the Watermark in Excel?. How to Resize the Watermark in Excel?.
How to Delete the Watermark in Excel? How to Insert Watermark in Excel Worksheets Here are the steps to insert a watermark in Excel Worksheet:. Go to Insert – Text – Header & Footer. This changes the Worksheet View to Page Layout and you would be able to see 3 boxes at the top of the worksheet.
Click within any of the three boxes where you want to insert the watermark. Select the middle one if you want to insert watermark at the center. When you click on any of the boxes, it also displays the Design option (in the ribbon) in the Header & Footer Tools tab. Go to Header & Footer Tools Design and click on Picture.
This opens the Insert Picture Dialogue Box. Locate the image file and double-click on it to insert in the header. Note that this does not display the picture, but a code &Picture. Click on any cell in the worksheet, you will be able to see the watermark. That’s it!! You have the watermark inserted. When you have inserted the watermark, excel remains in the Page Layout view.
You can go to the normal view by going to View – Workbook Views – Normal. Once you are in normal view mode, you will not see the watermark, but it is still there and can be viewed by going to the Page Layout Mode. It would also be printed when you print the worksheet. Note: The header has 3 boxes where you can insert watermark in Excel. You can not insert more than one watermark per section.
If you try to insert more than one watermark, it will show an error (as shown below): Re-positioning the Watermark If you want to change the position of the watermark (say you want to push it downwards), just add some blank lines before the code &Picture. To enter blank lines, place the cursor at the beginning of the code as hit enter. Add multiple blank lines to push the watermark down. If you want to show the DRAFT watermark at the center of the page, just enter enough line breaks to push it down to the center.
Resizing the Watermark Once you insert water in Excel, the picture dimensions (height/width) are that of the original picture. Once inserted, you can easily resize the watermark by following the below steps:. Go to Insert – Text – Header & Footer. This changes the Worksheet View to Page Layout and you would be able to see 3 boxes at the top of the worksheet.
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In the box where you have inserted the watermark, you will see the code &Picture. Click on the box in which you want to resize the watermark. Go to Header & Footer Tools – Design – Format Picture. This will open the Format Picture dialogue box. Change the Height and Width of the watermark. Removing the Watermark To remove the watermark in Excel, just remove the code &Picture. If you want to replace it with some other picture, just click on the header box (where you already have the code &Picture) and select Picture from the Design Tab. NOTE: You can do the same thing by inserting a picture in the footer instead of the header.
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Why Remove Watermark from PDF? People usually add watermark to important PDF documents to protect them from copying by others.
However, it gets people into trouble when they read the PDF files themselves if the watermark covers some parts of the file. Let’s see an example: I thought this would be a simple task, but it turned out the other way.
The watermark is the very same image on every single page. I created the PDF file myself (so no copyright worries here) using PDFCreator 0.9.8. I have already tried my friend’s Adobe Acrobat Pro, but the watermark just won’t disappear. How can I remove the watermark? Or Get some PDF documents from online, friends, clients, etc, but only to find that there are annoying and showy watermarks that inserted in the PDF files. Just as the following example shows: I went to the manufacturer’s (Canon) web site and downloaded a PDF version of the manual, which I then printed.
When I view the PDF file on my computer, everything looks perfect, but the printed version has the word “COPY” in light grey in the center of every page and I don’t know how to remove it. There was no end of parallel cases and they share one thing in common: need to remove watermark from PDF. It’s not difficult to delete watermark from PDF only if you find the ideal tool to do this work. Here is such a PDF Watermark Remover (, ), which offers you the easiest and fastest way to remove watermark from PDF with only a few clicks. It also allows you add watermark to PDF as you will.
More powerful features wait for explore. How to Remove PDF Watermark on Windows? This part will help Windows users to delete watermark from PDF with three steps on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10. Before beginning, please download and install first.
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Step 1 Launch PDF Remover. Simply drag and drop your PDF to the program or click “Open” button on the left bottom to open a PDF from local folder. Step 2 Click “Page” button on the toolbar and find “Watermark” option. Then open the drop-down menu to select “Remove Watermark”. Step 3 The watermark is deleted immediately and then save the PDF document. How to Remove Watermark from PDF on Mac? Follow the steps in this part, and you can delete PDF watermark on Mac OS X 10.7 and later (EI Capitan included).
First of all, download and install and go to “Application” to run it. Step 1 Click “Open File” button on the bottom right corner to load PDF file from where you want to delete watermark. Step 2 Go to the right hand side and click “Watermark” button and select “Remove” from the submenu. Step 3 Click on “OK” when a command pops up to ask you if you want to delete watermarks permanently. Post navigation.