Can I have a conditional watermark?

[Jane C]

Hi, I've searched for an answer to this on various forums but can't find
anything. Is it possible to make a watermark conditional on the value of a
field or bookmark? I.e. I have a document status, which is bookmarked. If
the contents of the bookmark are "Draft", I'd like a text DRAFT watermark to
appear. When the document status is changed to Final, I'd like the watermark
to disappear automatically. I don't want to use VBA, and I'm using Word 2003
running on XP.

Thanks.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Jane C,

Yes. Well almost. Something will have to trigger the change. Simply
typing "Final" in the bookmark "Status" [Final] range won't do it.

You can create an AutoText entry of your Watermark. Call it myWatermark.
Insert some nested fields in the header:

{ IF {REF Status}="Draft"{AutoText myWatermark}""}

Provided "Update Fields" is set in your printer options then toggling
through Print Preview will trigger the update. Otherwise your users will
have to click in the header, CTRL+a (select all) and update fields (F9).

 

[Jane C]

Hey that's very cool, thanks Greg.

Jane C,

Yes. Well almost. Something will have to trigger the change. Simply
typing "Final" in the bookmark "Status" [Final] range won't do it.

You can create an AutoText entry of your Watermark. Call it myWatermark.
Insert some nested fields in the header:

{ IF {REF Status}="Draft"{AutoText myWatermark}""}

Provided "Update Fields" is set in your printer options then toggling
through Print Preview will trigger the update. Otherwise your users will
have to click in the header, CTRL+a (select all) and update fields (F9).

Hi, I've searched for an answer to this on various forums but can't
find anything. Is it possible to make a watermark conditional on the
value of a field or bookmark? I.e. I have a document status, which
is bookmarked. If the contents of the bookmark are "Draft", I'd like
a text DRAFT watermark to appear. When the document status is changed
to Final, I'd like the watermark to disappear automatically. I don't
want to use VBA, and I'm using Word 2003 running on XP.

Thanks.

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