How to add Watermark to Your Word 2007 Document

 

Watermarks are used in Word documents to indicate some kind of information relating to the document. For example in watermark, you can show that the document is a Draft or Copyright Protected etc. In Word 2007, there are some ready-made watermarks which can be added to the document. However, you can create your own watermarks. Either the watermarks can be images or the text.

In case of image watermarking, you can put your company’s logo in the background of every page to give a more professional look to your documents. To add a watermark to your document follow these steps:

1. Click Watermark in the Page Layout ribbon

2. You can add a ready-made watermark from the four watermarks given in the box.Or to create a custom text / image watermark proceed to step 3

3. Click on the Custom Watermark

 

4. You can choose to add a text watermark or picture watermark from this window. In case of text watermark, enter the text and set fonts and check the “semi-transparent” box to make watermark washout. In case of picture watermark, click the select picture button and navigate to your picture and click insert to add the picture to watermark.

7. Don’t worry about the scaling as Word will automatically scale image according to the document.

8. Select Washout to make your image enlighten

9. Click the Apply button and then ok to set watermark.

However, if you need to change the watermark or need some changes in it, perform first three steps to open Printed Watermark window so that you can change the picture or text.