Right click on the border of your textbox (not inside on the text) and
select Format Text Box.

On the Colors and Lines tab, adjust the transparency to whatever you want.

This is either Word version and/or Windows version dependent but off the top
of my head I don't know which old versions have it.

I'm really not sure about seeing throuigh one image to another - I don't
think you can control that in Word but it may depend on the image format.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Dana" wrote in message
...
Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, the problem persists. The
watermark was never covered by normal text, only by objects like tif
images,
that are inserted, along with text boxes, into drawing canvases. When I
print
the document, the text boxes, tif images, and drawing canvases cover the
watermark. I've tried changing their order and sending them to the back,
but
no luck.



"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Click on View | Header and Footer. Right-click on the watermark
to select it, and left-click on Format Picture/Object/WordArt |
Layout | In front of text | OK. Click on Close.

Dana wrote:

Inserted pictures, text boxes, etc. block out the portions of my
watermark
that they cross. How can I make the watermark move to the front of
everything? Can't seem to find a 'move to front' order command like
for
objects. Thanks in advance.