Watermark -- formatting or ?

[Guest]

I am creating a document to be a decorative sign for my office bulletin
board, a motivational type phrase that I want to display. In the background,
I have placed a watermark, customized to what I want, which is the letters of
the internet lingo, "IMHO". The watermark feature of Word has this placed on
the diagonal, in a very large font (maybe size 48 or so) at the center of the
page. It looks okay, but not really what I want. What I would like to do is
have the mark in different sizes, all over the page (still at 30% gray, like
the watermark, and still on the diagonal). Is this possible? I'm using Word
2002 on Windows XP Professional, if you need that information.

 

[Guest]

You could open the header area and then create different sized text boxes
with your text in size or even use Word Art. Move the text boxes all over
the page and then close the header.

 

[Guest]

Ooh, a chance to learn something new --- I've never worked with Word Art,
although my 13 y.o. dd loves it -- would Word Art allow me to place text
on the diagonal? How about as a header? I thought the only way to get that
effect was through the watermark feature (which, btw, I love).

Thanks again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A watermark is just a graphic anchored to the header paragraph. The text
watermarks Word creates for you automatically are WordArt. Many users
complain that watermarks or backgrounds they create are tiled across the
page, so there must be some way (at least inadvertently) to do this, but the
experiments I tried were not successful. I would suggest that you might ask
in the microsoft.public.word.drawing.graphics newsgroup.

Note that if you go with the idea of text boxes you will probably be
disappointed, as text in a text box cannot be rotated to the diagonal. OTOH,
it can be very difficult to get WordArt to look like ordinary text. What you
might try is inserting your watermark as you have been doing, then using
View | Header and Footer to select the watermark, resize it, and duplicate
it. You can use Word's drawing tools (Draw | Align or Distribute on the
Drawing toolbar) to help you arrange your multiple WordArt objects. Note
that these must all be in (anchored to) the header if you want them to stay
Behind Text and out of your way, yet easily editable.

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

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