"Page 1" Watermark is too dark - it hides my data.

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I'm a very, very poorly educated Excel user - I use it in a very, very basic way - but I have a particular problem that I cannot find help solving.

 

As I'm working in an Excel document, the "Page 1" (or Page 2, etc.) watermark that automatically appears with a new document is so dark (or obscure in transparency) that I cannot easily read my data.  It causes me some eye strain - which may be particular to me and my eye condition.

 

There HAS to be a way to change this setting, but many google searches and many help searches have turned up nothing I can understand. 

 

Can I remove it?

Can I increase it's transparency?

 

2 Replies

Hi @johnnyjoe1083 

 

It looks like you might be in Page Break View. 

 

On the ribbon at the top, click on View and then click on either "normal" or "Page Layout" views

 

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The buttons down the bottom right also switch to the same views as well.

 

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Let me know if this helps with your problem.

 

Thanks,

Mark

@HidMov 

It solves the view problem, but not the essential problem.

 

I prefer to view the documents I make in the way that I will print them - which I think for Excel users is the exception and not the rule.

 

I have one document that - for some reason - had over 100,000 lines, and I'm using 150.....

Thank you for the response.  I'm still an Excel newbie.