Watermark: How to do in MSWord

Watermark:

Watermarks are text or pictures that appear behind document text. It is often used for identifying the document status.

For example: Marking a document as a Draft, Confidential, Do Not Copy etc. Watermarks can be viewed in Print Layout view and Full Screen Reading View or in a printed document.

If you use a picture, you can lighten it, or wash it out, so that it doesn't interfere with document text. If you use text, You can select from built-in phrases or type in your own text.

How to insert a text watermark

You can insert a pre designed watermark from a gallery of watermark text, or you can insert a watermark with custom text.

1.    From the office ribbon, click page Layout tab. In page Background group, click watermark. (See image-1).

2.    Click tiny arrow button (below watermark text) for predefined watermark. E.g. Confidential, Do not Copy, SAMPLE etc. (See Image-2)

3.    Click Custom Watermark, click Text watermark and then select or type the text that you want. You can also format the text, font, size, color etc. (See Image-3)

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How to insert a image as watermark

In Image 3 you can see there are 3 options:

·         No Watermark

·         Picture Watermark

·         Text Watermark

Select Picture Watermark, you can select any picture you want to 

watermark on page.

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Note: Watermarks can be viewed only in Print Layout and Full Screen Reading

         views and on the printed page.