Excel - Setting Background

Setting Background

You can change the background of your Excel worksheet to any type of picture that you prefer. This is simple and easy to do with the few steps below.

  • SET BACKGROUND
  • Step 1 - Open the worksheet that you want to set background for. Then click the Page Layout tab, then go to the Page Setup group and click on Background.
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  • Step 2 - A dialog box will be displayed, click on where you want to get your background for. (In this case I getting the background from my computer local storage, so I'm clicking From a file)
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    NOTE:

    Note that if you don't have internet connection and or you want to get the background image from your computer, simply click on the Work Offline button as shown in the image below.

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  • Step 3 - Excel will open your File Explorer, go the folder where image you want to use as background is located, select it and click on the Insert button.
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  • Step 4 - The image will be successfully applied as the background of your worksheet.
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  • REMOVE BACKGROUND
  • Step 1 - To remove the background, click the Page Layout tab, then go to the Page Setup group and click on Delete Background.
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  • Step 2 - The image used as the background will be successfully deleted from the worksheet.
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