[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The built-in watermark is really no different from this. You should be able
to cut or copy and paste that into the document body and change the wrapping
to In Front of Text to get exactly the same effect.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"MCain" wrote in message
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I forgot to mention that I could NOT get it to work with the regular
watermark feature.

Here are the steps that I used:

Click inside your paragraph
Go to WordArt - I use Style 2 (which angles across the page)
Choose Font and size
Type your watermark (DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, etc) - hit OK
This will insert it into the paragraph
Click on it to resize it
Right click and choose "format WordArt"
In Line Section choose "no color"
In color choose a gray shade then set the transparency slider
Go to Page Layout Tab and click the Text Wrapping button - choose "In
Front
of Text" - this will send it to the bottom of the page.
Select it and drag it to where you want it.
You can still adjust the color and transparency by right clicking on it
and
choosing "format WordArt".



"MCain" wrote:

Thank you so much! That worked.



"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages,
there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not
inside the
table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark.

If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in
line
with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of
text".
You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page.

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MCain wrote:
Sorry to be so dumb. But I guess I'm just not following the
instructions.

I need the watermark to go across the page in front of a table. The
table has colored columns. When I try to insert WordArt in with the
text or copy and paste it, it messes up the table.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You've been told how it can be done.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"MCain" wrote in message
...
So I'm guessing it can't be done?? :-)

I appreciate everyone's thoughts.



"Jay Freedman" wrote:

I was assuming that at least some of the watermark might stick out
above and
below the table, and it would be best not to have two of them
floating about.

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:11:47 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"

wrote:

Or, if the watermark doesn't show on the page at all, why not
leave well enough alone and just add the graphic to the page,
leaving the invisible watermark behind?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:18:01 -0700, MCain

wrote:

I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a
table. The
watermark goes behind the table.

I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I
have tried
going into the header section and selecting the watermark and
choosing bring
to front.

If I don't have header section selected the bring to front
option is grayed
and not available to use at all.

Nothing I've tried works.


Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is
anchored in
the
header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert
it in the
regular text on the page with the table.

I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this
version
because
it
doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no
matter how
unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my
educated guess.)

If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert
section
breaks
before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button
in the
Header &
Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste
copies of
the
watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following
sections.