How to Add a Text Watermark in a Word Document

chillibreeze writer — Anamika Sharma

A watermark is any graphic or text that is used to signify the contents of a document as a draft, as confidential, or as urgent. Additionally, using a watermark helps enhance the formatting of a document. When printed, a watermark appears either behind or in front of the existing document text. This tutorial shows you how you to add a text watermark in a Word 2007 document.

1. Open the Word document to which you want to add a watermark.
2. Click Page Layout > Watermark, as shown in Figure 1:

A drop-down list appears displaying a preview of all the watermarks available by default.

3. Scroll down the drop-down list to select the watermark you want to use in your document. This displays the text in the selected watermark on every page of your Word document, as shown in Figure 2:

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4. To add a custom watermark, click Custom Watermark. The Printed Watermark dialog box appears (Figure 3).
5. Select the Text watermark option and specify the language and text you want to use for the watermark in the Language and Text drop-down boxes (Figure 3).
6. Specify the font formatting for the watermark in the Font, Size, and Color drop-down boxes (Figure 3).
7. Select the Semitransparent check box if it is not already selected to ensure that the watermark text does not overlap with the document text (Figure 3).
8. Specify the layout for the watermark by selecting either Diagonal or Horizontal option beside Layout and then click Apply and then click Close, as shown in Figure 3:

The custom watermark now appears on every page of your Word document, as shown in Figure 4:

 

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—About our writer: Anamika Sharma holds an MCA degree and works as a Technical Writer with a multinational company in New Delhi. She began writing professionally in 2010, documenting user guides and how-to articles for software products. Her love for new technologies aids in her ability to produce great documents that make an impact. Though she has just started freelancing, some of her how-to articles can be viewed on http://www.wikihow.com. When not writing, Anamika remains busy reading, daydreaming or going berserk with kids.

 

 

 

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