Try saving the picture as a .jpg and then using it in excel

Perhaps the gif is indexed and that is creating an anonamoly in excel

"JDThree [MVP]" wrote:

> I've been digging through google as well as MS's support site and the various
> newsgroups, public and private, and haven't found any suggestions for this.
> I've found the question asked, but never answered...
>
> Is there any way when putting a background image in an excel file to keep it
> from shooting the file size up to several meg?
>
> An empty XLS file that starts out as 13.5K turns out to be 3.4 MB with the
> inclusion of a 10k GIF as a background.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions. Just looking into an option for someone who
> wanted a background image for a template for some documents they habitually
> do. And since the watermarks are on top of the text, they didn't want a
> watermark.
>
> There's not a concern about printing, though we did find a handy macro to let
> it print as well if you want, but these are mostly just computer only, won't
> see paper, so printing wasn't an issue even before we found that solution.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> --
> John D [MVP - Tablet PC]
>