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Removing a Watermark in Microsoft Word

Posted by: Samantha Enslen, president and senior editor, January 14th, 2007

A fellow editor just wrote with another problem related to Microsoft Word. Seems that a document she was trying to edit had the word Draft splashed on the background every page, in big, blue, 40-point type. This “watermark” was a huge distraction. Could she get rid of it?

Indeed she could, and she did. To remove a watermark in Word:

  • On the toolbar, click Format.
  • Click Background, and then Printed Watermark.
  • Select the No Watermark checkbox.

Voila. Happy editing -

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 14th, 2007 at 3:53 pm and is filed under Microsoft Word, Technology and communications. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Removing a Watermark in Microsoft Word”

  • avatar Lynne says:

    I’m running Word 2003. What you describe above is exactly what it says to do in the “help” files. And unfortunatly, it is not working in my document. If you find more information on this that might work for me, please let me know. Thanks!

  • avatar Lynne says:

    UPDATE: To remove unruly watermarks - even though they do not appear to be in the header or footer of the document - select ‘view header/footer’. Then you will be able to select the watermark as a picture and simply delete it.

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