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Thu 5 Jul 2007, 14:10 Delegate Anne said...

Anne has attended:
Excel Introduction course
Excel Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course
Excel VBA Intro Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course

Backgrounds

How to change Excel window background colour but not affect the printout.

thanks.

Anne

Tue 10 Jul 2007, 12:32 Trainer Anthony said...

RE: backgrounds

Hi Anne. This is not a configurable option in Excel, but there is a trick you can use to achieve it. Essentially, create a jpg file such as a rectangle coloured with your prefered colour. Once you have that within Excel select Format - Sheet - Background and navigate to your saved graphics file. This will install that graphic as a background image but won't print it out. Hope this helps.

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Changing Excel file and worksheet defaults

The appearance of any new Excel files or any new worksheets that are inserted into a file are controlled by two template files, Book.xlt and Sheet.xlt.

By opening, modifying and saving these templates you can change the default settings for all new files and/or all newly inserted sheets.

Use Book.xlt to make change to defaults for new workbooks; and Sheet.xlt to change defaults for sheets.

If you can't find either of these files on your computer, you can create and save them yourself.

You can do this simply by creating a new workbook with the setting you want to use as your defaults; then saving them with the appropriate name in the XLStart folder. If you are using Office 2003, this is usually found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\XLStart.

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