Making the first page into a separate section (by adding a Next Page section
break between it and page 2) will work. After turning off Same As Previous
in the Section 2 header, though, you need to click on the watermark in that
section and delete it (*not* by using the watermark dialog to remove it,
since that will also remove it from section 1).
If you insert the picture behind text but not in a header, you *do* have the
option of the washed-out look. Select the picture, which should display the
Picture toolbar (if not, choose it from View Toolbars). Click the Color
button on the toolbar and choose Washout. You can fine-tune the effect by
using the Contrast and Brightness buttons on the same toolbar.
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Dan wrote:
I wanted to revisit this topic because neither of the proposed
solutions worked for me. I'm using Word 2003 and need to insert a
washed-out picture watermark on only the front page of my document.
I've followed the directions for putting the first page in its own
section and then turning off the link-to-previous attribute in the
subsequent section's header. No dice. The watermark persists
throughout the document.
Inserting as a behind-the-text picture will work, however I then do
not have the option of selecting a washed-out look.
I can't believe there's not a straightforward approach for this that
works.
Any ideas? I'm particularly bewildered by the failure of the first
approach (deselecting the link-to-previous). I followed the
directions diligently and it just simply does not work, which leads
me to believe that the watermark really isn't in the header after all.
Does anybody have any ideas with this?
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:
Add your watermark as a graphic behind text in the document linked
to a particular paragraph. Do _not_ put it in the header or footer
if you only want it on one page. (The header/footer is the best
location for a watermark normally, because normally you want it on
multiple pages.) --
Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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We are trying to add a watermark to just one or two pages of a
multi-page Word document. Is there a way to limit which pages get
the watermark? We are using Word 2003.