add document as a watermark

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I have an Office XP (Word 2002) document with my company Terms & Conditions.
I want to print it on the back of my stationary as a "Printed Watermark".
This way it will not bleed thru to the front of the document. How can I
create a watermark (background) using the text on this document? Currently it
only allows me to add a picture or a couple of words as text.
 
What you basically want is a block of text in a light gray color. You can do
this as ordinary text, or you can put it in a text box. The problem with
this is that if you anchor a text box (set to Behind Text) to the header
paragraph (which is typical for a watermark), (a) it will repeat on page,
and (b) document text will overlay it. Even if you don't anchor it to the
header, if you send it Behind Text, the document text will overlay it. If
you don't send it Behind Text, then the document text will (in theory) flow
around it, but since it has to be anchored to a paragraph on the page, that
paragraph will interrupt the text flow. But if you use ordinary text, it
will move with the text flow of the letter.

All of which is to say that there is no one satisfactory way to do this. If
all letters are less than one page, then I would go with the text box
anchored to the Header (using a First Page Header so it will not appear on
the first page), but you'll need to insert a page break at the end of your
letters to make the second page print. If letters exceed one page naturally,
then you're in trouble again. This seems to me to be a case where commercial
printing would serve a multitude of problems.

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

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I have an Office XP (Word 2002) document with my company Terms & Conditions.
I want to print it on the back of my stationary as a "Printed Watermark".
This way it will not bleed thru to the front of the document. How can I
create a watermark (background) using the text on this document? Currently it
only allows me to add a picture or a couple of words as text.
Click to expand...

Not as a watermark from that wizard...

If there will never be any other text on that page, just insert the
text normally on page 2. If you want to be able to print other text on
top of it, (a) in File > Page Setup > Layout, check "Different odd and
even"; (b) open the header area and go to the Even Page Header; (c)
insert a text box in the middle of the page and put the Terms in it;
and (d) format the text box with no line, no fill, and "behind text"
wrapping.

In either case, select the text of the Terms, click the text color
button and choose More Colors, and select a light gray from the row of
samples at the bottom.
 
You might want to read this TechTrax article (and the previous one
linked within this article) to learn how to automate this process...

Automating Watermarks, Part Deux
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=456

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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