How do you create a text background in Excel?
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Mimic a watermark in Excel   \nWatermark functionality is not available in Excel. If you want to display a graphic on every printed page (for example, to indicate that the information is confidential), you can insert the graphic in a header or footer. This way, the graphic appears behind the text, starting at the top or bottom of every page. You can also resize or scale it to fill the page.\n\n-On the View menu, click Header and Footer. \n-In the Page Setup dialog box, click Custom Header or Custom Footer. \n-Click in the Left section, Center section, or Right section box. \n-In the row of buttons in the Header or Footer dialog box, click -Insert Picture  and then find the graphic you want to insert. \n-Double-click the graphic to insert it in the header or footer section box. \n-To resize or scale the graphic, click Format Picture  in the row of buttons in the Header or Footer dialog box and then, in the Format Picture dialog box, select the options you want on the Size tab.
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First, I don't think you should be using Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet program that is designed to work as one.  It is not meant to work with large amounts of text.  Excel will only allow 255 characters into a cell, regardless of how large it is.  Even if you manage to cut and paste into the cell, it will automatically trunkate at the 256th character.  If you are putting multiple paragraphs into each cell, I ask you why?  If you are going for the look, you can use Word and make a table.  The characters are unlimited in a Word table, so your formatting should come right it, without trunkating your hard work.  \n\nIf you must use Excel, the key to getting a forced (ie paragraph seperation) you should press and hold the Alt key while pressing the Enter key.  This will force a line break into the cell.  You should also change the wrapping of your cells by highlighting the cells and choosing Format, Cells, and on the Alignment tab- check the Wrapping box.\n\nI highly recommend using Word in a table format.  You can make it look exactly like an Excel printout, but will not run into the problems of the character limit.
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You have to copy and paste it.\n\nHow To Copy and Paste: \nTake your mouse, and place your cursor at the beginning of the text in the box below, then click and hold the left mouse button, while pulling your mouse over the text. This should highlight the text. Now release the left mouse button. Now, with the cursor over the highlighted text, right click the mouse for options, and select 'copy'. Now over the empty box below, right click your mouse again, and select 'paste' and you will have copied and pasted the text.
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I would suggest using a plain text editor, such as notepad (win), textedit (mac), or an open-source plain text editor.
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this is the best Excel site I've ever found on the web. Lots and lots of tutorials from beginner level to expert. \n\nhttp://www.MrExcel.com\n\ngood luck
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In Laymans.\nHold your cursor (mouse) infront of the text you wish to highlight.....\nonce you LEFT-clicked hold the click and drag across and the text will be highlighed...\ninstead of right-clicking to copy and paste..\nLearn these keyboard shortcuts..\n\nCTRL + C  (held together at the same time) is Copy!\nCTRL + V (held togert at same time) is to  paste\n\nNOTE CTRL + C dont holf the "+" along with it is just CTRL C\n....\nJust wanted to let you kno that they are held together
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outlook express    createmail   format     rich text   background
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Right click on the slide - select change background - and select the image you want as a background (picture) or colors or patterns or even gradients.  If you change the "background" in master and choose a different design in "slide design" then you will be selecting that background for the entire show.\n\nbelow is from the help menu on powerpoint:\nIf you want to apply the change to selected slides only, select the slides in normal view. Otherwise, the change applies to all slides that follow the design template (design template: A file that contains the styles in a presentation, including the type and size of bullets and fonts; placeholder sizes and positions; background design and fill color schemes; and a slide master and optional title master.) of the currently selected slide.\n\nOn the Format menu, click Background.\n\nUnder Background fill, click the arrow below the image, and then do one of the following: \nSelect a color from the color scheme\n\nClick one of the eight colors displayed. \nSelect a color outside the color scheme\n\nClick More Colors. \nClick the color you want on the Standard tab, or click the Custom tab to mix your own color, and then click OK. \nSelect a fill effect or picture\n\nClick Fill Effects, and then do one of the following: \nTo use shading, click the Gradient tab, click a type under Colors, click a shading style, and then click OK. \nTo use a texture, click the Texture tab, click the texture you want or click Other Texture to select a file and insert it, then click OK. \nTo use a pattern, click the Pattern tab, select the pattern you want, select foreground and background colors, then click OK. \nTo use a picture, click the Picture tab, click Select Picture to find the picture file you want, click Insert, and then click OK. \nUse the background fill from the slide master\n\nClick Automatic. \nDo one of the following: \nIf you want to apply the background to selected slides, click Apply. \nIf you want to apply the background to all slides, click Apply to All. \n\nGood luck!
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There are several ways to go about this, depending on how you have already entered data and what exactly you want it to look like.\n\nDid you already enter data into Excel?  Is it in the format: 9'3", 9'4", etc.?\n\nIs this data entered along a row (across) or a column (vertical), or some other layout?\n\nDo you want Excel to show the data in that same format (i.e. 9'3") or do you want it to say something like 9.25 ft?\n\nAny oher specific information I should know about what you're trying to do?  This way I can give you a useful answer.
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Conditional formatting. \nSelect the columns/areas\nGo to: Format, Conditional formatting. \nSelect 'Formula is' in first drop down, in data entry, type in =MOD(ROW(),2)=1\nclick format\nselect patterns\nselect a background color\nclick ok\nclick ok\n\nTo get it in a button, start recording a macro, do the steps listed above, add a button from the forms toolbar, link the button to the macro you just recorded.
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1. may be you could change the font color of other area to white other than default black, ctrl-a to select all cell, change font color to white, then highlight area concerned and change font color to automatic.\n2. click column G, ctrl+shift+right arrow, format column hide, click row 11, ctrl+shift+down arrow, format row hide.
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I guess this must help you\n\nhttp://www.exceltip.com/st/Color_numbers_based_on_the_value_result_in_Microsoft_Excel/74.html\n\nSo you might want to first select all cells in Excel an then format it to some color that you want text to appear in.\n\nNext you do this steps for selecting any of the colors for numbers.\n\nExample: [BLUE] #,##0 ;[RED](#,##0)\n\n\nYou can choose same color again and again.
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Create a table. Fill in each number you want to add in the same column, but different rows. Leave one column empty at the end. Go to the Toolbar and click on Table. Then click on formulas. In the Formula box you add your formula:\n=SUM(above).\n\nCreate a table. Fill in each number you want to add in the same row, but different column Leave one column empty at the the far right. Go to the Toolbar and click on Table. Then click on formulas. In the Formula box you add your formula:\n=SUM(left).\n\nFor autotext features:\nAuto Correct Tab:  Fill in a word you want to replace in the box and then type the word you want to replace it with. I do this for words I tend to misspell. (I.e., wierd with weird)\nOn the auto text text you can fill in a phrase that you would like completed so you don't have to type it in. You could use your name. John A Doe. When you type John the rest of the name will appear and all you have to do is hit enter and the name is completed.
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If you're going to put something else there...find the CSS coding for the text in that area and change it to the same color which you have for your background in the table. I'm not sure that you can completely remove that text, but if you change it to the background color it won't matter.
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Do you have word? If you do, then you can go to tools - envelopes and labels and choose the type of label you have. Then you need to click on "new document" this will put the lines where they are supposed to be. \n\nIf you don't have word, all I can say is to set up the cells in excel to be where the labels fall by trying it on blank pieces of paper. \n\nIt would be easier in Word though...
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Lesson 2.4: Changing the Background\n\nTwo Ways to Change\n\nThere are two ways you can change the background on your page. You can either change the color or put a picture in the background, which are analogous to painting the background of your webpage or wallpapering it. \n\nFirst Open Up Page Properties\n\nYou should first open up Page Properties. To access the Page Properties dialog box, go to Modify > Page Properties.\n\n\n\nThe resulting dialog box is where you can change either the background color or the background image of your page.\n\n\n\nPainting Your Background\n\nTo change the color of your background, simply click and hold on the little black arrow on the box labeled "Background" and then choose the color that you want for your background. Try to keep to light colors for dark fonts and dark colors for light fonts to maximize readability. \n\nHere are some samples of pages with colored backgrounds:\nNote: These sample pages will open up in a window.\n\n• Example of a page with a dark and light font on a light background\n• Example of a page with a light and dark font on a dark background\n• Example of a bad page with horrible color choice and contrast\n• Example of a page with colored tables\n\nWallpapering Your Background\n\nTo use an image as the background of your page, first make sure that the image is copied into your web folder. Then click on the "Browse" button by the text box labeled "Background Image" and find the image in your folder. Try to keep the image simple for easier readability contrast, or, if you really, really want to use a complicated image, use a white table on top of it.\n\nHere are some examples of pages with backgrounds:\n\n• Example of a page with a simple light background with dark text\n• Example of a page with a textured dark backgrond with light text \n• Example of a page with a complicated background (note how difficult it is to read the text!) and then with a white table on top to make it much clearer