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Part I
Getting Started with Excel
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The accompanying figure shows an example of a header image (a globe) used as a watermark. You can do a
similar thing with text, of course.
Printing row and column titles
If your worksheet is set up with titles in the first row and descriptive names in the first column, it can be
difficult to identify data that appears on printed pages where those titles do not appear. To resolve this problem,
you can choose to print selected rows or columns as titles on each page of the printout.
Row and column titles serve pretty much the same purpose on a printout as frozen panes do in
navigating within a worksheet. See Chapter 4 for more information on freezing panes. Keep in
mind, however, that these features are independent of each other. In other words, freezing panes does not
affect the printed output.
CROSS-REF
Don’t confuse print titles with headers; these are two different concepts. Headers appear at
the top of each page and contain information, such as the worksheet name, date, or page
number. Row and column titles describe the data being printed, such as field names in a database table or
list.
CAUTION
You can specify particular rows to repeat at the top of every printed page or particular columns to repeat at
the left of every printed page. To do so, choose Page Layout ➪ Page Setup ➪ Print Titles. Excel displays the
Sheet tab of the Page Setup dialog box, shown in Figure 10.6.
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