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How do I remove the word "draft" that is watermarked in Word d
thanks so much for taking the time to post how you fixed this problem. i was
starting to get verry verrry frustrated! thanks! "1977Dooley" wrote: Thankyou thankyou!! I was having the same problem today as jelyho and tried everything, and this was my last resort and worked. Cheers. "Carol S Butler" wrote: I had a problem with a watermark or background text (I didn't know which it was) that I could not remove. Finally, I 'viewed header and footer', clicked on 'show/hide document text' to remove the main text and then the 'watermark' appeared on it's own and I clicked on this and deleted it and it was gone from the whole document. I then clicked on 'show/hide document text' again to bring back the main text. I really hope this helps someone, as I found it soooo frustrating! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A true watermark is nothing more or less than a graphic anchored to the page header and formatted as Behind Text. When you use Format | Background | Printed Watermark, you are using a Word feature that makes it easy to insert such a graphic without being fully aware of what you're doing. When you do this, the watermark *is* anchored to the header. If your document has (or comes to have) more than one section, you may be unable to remove the watermark from every section using the Printed Watermark dialog, but you should still be able to remove it by opening the header in each section, clicking on the graphic, and pressing Delete. If the graphic is not anchored to the header, then it must be anchored to text on the page (as unlikely as that seems). If that's the case, then you need to select the Select Objects tool on the Drawing toolbar and use it to select the graphic, then delete, but this would presumably have to be repeated for every page. Although it is beyond comprehension that someone would create a watermark this way, if it is not anchored to the header, then it much be anchored to each page, and copy/pasting one page at a time would not get rid of it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "jelyho" wrote in message ... Sorry, that was two separate thoughts. I followed the directions for the removal of the watermark. That did not work. Then, on the off chance that the watermark was part of the header, I tried the instructing for the header, and that did not work, since it wasn't part of the header. Currently, the document still has the watermark, even though FormatBackgroundWatermark is set to "No Watermark". I am currently copying and pasting the 200 pages into a new document to avoid having the watermark in the background. {on the plus side, that is letting me do a final proofread paragraph by paragraph}. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I don't see that Bob said anything about copying and pasting. What did you copy and paste? If you copied the entire document, including the final paragraph mark, then of course you brought the header (and watermark) along. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "jelyho" wrote in message ... That didn't work for me. When I copied and pasted into a new document, the "draft" came with the text. "CyberTaz" wrote: Presumably the 'instructions' you mention are based on the FormatBackgroundPrinted Watermark feature, which may not have been used. Try going to ViewHeader and Footer, select the unwanted stuff & press Delete. If that doesn't work the stuff may just be a text box with 'Behind Text' wrapping applied, in which case you can use the Select Objects tool (white arrow on the Drawing Toolbar next to the Draw button) to select the item & delete it. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "wasm0001" wrote in message ... I am unable to remove the word "draft" that is watermarked in my Word document in light green. The instructions to remove fill or a watermark in the Word Help section do not remove it. |
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