How to Add a Printable Background Picture in Excel - Tutorial 🖼️

Tutorial on how to add a printable background picture in Excel. You'll also learn how to format the background image in this free Excel tutorial.

It can be tricky to print a background picture in Excel. The problem is that the default Background Image button doesn't create a printable background picture – you'll notice the background in Excel not showing up in print preview.

Watch this short tutorial to learn how to insert a background image in Excel that you can print and edit.

In this tutorial, we show an example of a printable background picture added to a calendar in Excel. We'll also recolor the example Excel background picture so that it's lighter. This way you can make readable notes on the document AND print a background image.

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[vickijarrett]

This was so helpful! My husband uses Excel all the time at work, but didn't know how to do this, so it really taught us both! Thank you!

[hasanf.hammoud]

Thank you very much, that was helpful

[anne-lisemartinez]

This is so helpful. Microsoft office should catch up onto that "background button" and realize it's useless. You're way should be part of the options for "background"

[pdekarmakar]

thanks a lot YAcosta Solutions, it is very much helpful to me...

[Langejanh]

Brilliant!! Thank you so much. Took me a while to find a great solution like yours. Subscribing for sure.

[cypheraine]

Oh god, I've been looking for this for a long ass time. Finally found a solution. Thanks!

[emiliaalejandrakuschnir]

can I move the picture to the center of the page? it's coming on top

[stickoimicko]

Hi, this is very helpful, thank you so much!
Problem with this is when I print it to PDF, some pages have image cropped on sides to margin, but some of them cover full sheet.
Have you had maybe such issue before?
Thanks!

[Kateangelfoo]

your tips are really useful, but my picture is small how to make it on full page please?

[alifadhil]

that was help full but what if i want the image to cover the full page?

[darek]

How to keep the size of the immage. when you zoom in or zoom out the cells are not at the same place?

[niyas]

This has a limitation. it can be used only if we are not having an image as a header.
Could you please help me in adding the Image Background when Header Imae is available?
Thanks for the knowledge shared. it was helpful :)

[MartinParnham]

I'm being stupid here but why doesn't the format option show up for me when I click in the header? Everything is just greyed out. So frustrating!

[semantisk]

Can we add two differents picture for two different pages in one sheet using this procedure?

[accountingcrj]

I did this every thing looked great, including print preview, but it is only printing the lower part of what is in my excel cells even cutting off part of a row? Any idea why?

[chibambulamaybin]

hi, I did this but only the picture printed. All the data and grids did not print. What could i have done wrong?

[blindside_o]

0:52 starts the actual how to. For some reason this tutorial shows what NOT to do at the beginning.

[vanthng]

I managed to add background but the background I chose doesn't cover the whole sheet. When I changed the size of the background, it became very blurry. How do I make it possible so that the background covers the whole sheet and also, it doesn't get blurry?

[ifairyvoice]

Weird, I am using Mac Office 2016, and in the header, there is no option for picture, it is just the way mac office is or anything I did wrong?

[tere]

When I click on Norma View. the image disappears. Is that normal?