[Terry Farrell]

I think that we all agree that the MS Help files are both hard to find and
frequently not that informative.

Graphic/picture watermarks are fine when resized or AUTO: I don't see any
problem. However, if your right-click on the inserted watermark, select
Format Picture and click on the Layout tab, you can change all the
alignment/positioning as you can with any picture inserted into a document.

I'm guessing that your Word Default is set to insert graphics In Line with
text which is why it inserts in line with the paragraph mark it is anchored
to in the Header. You can change the default if you want in Word Options,
but you can right-click and change on an indivual basis too whether it is a
WM or not.

Terry

"RN" wrote in message
...
Let me first say thanks for your efforts.
I work at a large company and only have access to network printers. Also,
I
work in print layout mode most of the time.

Did you try custom watermarks? Or just standard. After I saved and
reopened the file the next day my custom picture watermark was in every
section. I saved a custom text to the watermark gallery, deleted from
the
document and selected from the gallery and from that point it will work.
I
don't have much good to say about the Microsoft help files in this area.
I
stumbled around and finally figured out how to do it but not sure I can
repeat it reliably. Also you have not answered my questions about why
any
scaling of a custom picture watermark other than auto results in a
watermark
that is top, left oriented.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

Well I can only think that perhaps I just don't have a sufficiently large
document to reproduce your bug.

But some things to check that may cause these sort of problems with large
documents:

Make sure that when all apps are close - preferably after a fresh
reboot -
that your temp folder is completely empty.
Make sure that you have a compatible locally installed printer driver set
as
the Windows default. As a quick test (presuming you have a full install
of
Office), select the Microsoft Office XPS Document Writer as the Windows
Default. Then start Word and open the document. Check in Print Preview
and
see if the problem is still there.

Terry

"RN" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the information. I have issues of messed up graphics if I
move
to XML and back and I don't want to proofread the entire document
(since
it
has legal implications) to look for flaws in formating and references.
However I did try it to see if the watermarks would behave correctly.
I
got
my picture watermarks in the entire document. I deleted them and then
inserted the text watermark and the behavior was unchanged. Either
document size is the issue or we have different versions of Word 2007.

As for the separate issue of uneven spaced paragraphics when XML is
imported
in
Word 2003. If there are blank paragraphs I don't know how to access
them.
No paragraph markers show up.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

No. The purpose of saving as XML and reverting back by Save as .doc,
is
that
it usually removes minor hidden corruptions in from the doc structure.
In
this case, I believe that the H&F layout is corrupted: with XML. H&Fs
are
stored in separate files which are then zipped up together to form a
single
file. I am not suggesting that you keep the document in xml format to
pass
around.

Don't forget, that all of the Office users prior to Office 2007 can
download
and install the free compatibility pack. Not only does this provide
them
with Office 2007 compatibility, but also install all the new 'C' fonts
that
come with Office 2007.

If you are seeing uneven spacing between paragraphs between Word 2007
and
Word 2003 (regardless of whether it is a doc or xml format), it
suggests
that the interparagraph spacing has been done by inserting empty
paragraphs
rather using Space After in the paragraph style.

Terry

"RN" wrote in message
...
Yes Terry, I should have said this is a large existing document
(300
pages)
done in Word 2003. I am still saving in this format so I can
distribute
it.
Changing to docx and back is problematic. This document has lots
of
figures and graphics. My audience do not have Word 2007. Yes I
know
they
can get a viewer but I don't consider that a useable option. I
did
notice
that in Word 2003 that my daughter created at home that WOrd 2003
will
allow
one to paste in xml and that can be very difficult to locate and fix
formatting of. I see uneven spaces between paragraphs with no way
to
make
them uniform. So your concern is that there may be some hidden XML?

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

Have you tried this on a new, fresh document? This definitely does
work:
I
cannot replicate the problem you are having which suggests to me
that
the
document may be partially corrupt.

Take a copy of the document and use SaveAs and choose the xml
option.
That
may well get rid of the corruption and get the H&Fs working
correctly.

Terry