How To add a Watermark to Word 2007 Documents

Sometimes you might want to add a watermark or “background” image to your Word documents to add a company logo or identify the document status.  Today we will look at the process to easily add them into your Word 2007 docs.

With the Word document open go to Page Layout and in the Page Background section click on Watermark.

Now you can choose one of the included watermarks to fit the type of document or add a custom image.

To add a custom image click on Custom Watermark as the bottom of the menu.  Notice this is where you can remove a watermark as well.

Now you can add your own custom text watermark or browse for an image such as a company logo.  Here you can also select a custom font, color, layout, and size of the watermark.

That’s it!  Now you will have the custom text or image watermark in your document.

This tutorial should definitely get you started on adding custom watermarks to your important documents.

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This article was originally written on 06/25/09 Tagged with: Microsoft Word

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Comments (4)

1. June 25, 2009 4:24 am
   Shail

   Really Helpful! Thank You!

2. June 25, 2009 5:15 am
   JHubbard92

   Sweet! Nice one Geek!

3. June 26, 2009 11:00 am
   RichardMiami

   Great tip – do you also know a way to Watermark multiple pages in a document, other than doing this manually one at a time? (Word 2007)

   Thanks in advance!

4. October 13, 2009 8:29 am
   D. C.

   Good…

   now, how on Earth am I supposed to print it?

   If I do a “Print Preview”, everything works fine but if I print it not all letters of the watermark appears and if I print it a 2nd time, different letters will appear!!!

   Ex.: Watermark is : RESTRICTED
   Print Preview: RESTRICTED (obviously!)
   Printing attempt #1: R ST I T D
   Printing attempt #2: E T I T

   And if I “freeze” it in a PDF, the letters are all pixellized….seems Watermarks in Word are strangely managed….

   (on Word 2007 SP2)