Transcript Watermarks and backgrounds

Add a watermark or background
Do you want to
visually convey that a
document is draft
only? Or that the
information is strictly
confidential?
You can do that with a
watermark.
Example 1 shows what a watermark is. The
watermark tells people something about the document.
Watermarks are semitransparent in color, so they sit
behind and don’t divert people’s attention from the
document’s content. They are for documents that will
be printed.
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backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a watermark or background
Another sort of
background, shown in
example 2 , is purely
for decoration and is
intended for
documents you’d post
to a Web site.
You can add all sorts of colorful backgrounds,
including solid colors, gradients, patterns, textures,
and even pictures.
The goal is to liven up the page — but you don’t want
to make it hard to read.
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backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a watermark to a printed document
Here are examples of
watermarks.
The ones with text are
typical of what’s
available in the
watermark gallery in
Word 2007.
Once the watermark’s inserted, you can see it in Print
Layout view, in print preview, or in the printed document.
As this indicates, watermarks are intended for printed
documents — they will not show up in the Web Layout
view of the document, which is the view used if you post
the document to a Web site.
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backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a picture watermark
For a custom
watermark, you can
use either text or a
picture.
These steps show
how you’d create a
picture watermark.
1
On the Page Layout tab, click Watermark to open the
gallery.
2
Click Custom Watermark, at the bottom of the gallery.
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backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a picture watermark
For a custom
watermark, you can
use either text or a
picture.
These steps show
how you’d create a
picture watermark.
3
Click Picture watermark, and select your picture. Use
any image on your computer, or clip art in the Microsoft
Clip Organizer.
4
Your result might look something like the example
shown.
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backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a background to a Web document
Use a colorful
background to add
boldness or flavor to
Web documents.
You add a background from the Page Layout tab, by
clicking Page Color.
From there, you can apply a solid color or click Fill
Effects to choose a gradient, textured, or patterned
background, as shown here. Or, you can apply a
picture from your computer.
Decorate documents with
backgrounds, borders, and text effects
Add a background to a Web document
Use a colorful
background to add
boldness or flavor to
Web documents.
Important: Don’t overpower your text with the
background you choose. You want it to complement
the text, not make it unreadable.
Decorate documents with
backgrounds, borders, and text effects