Hello again, Paul.

I've tried placing a table directly in the header and using the "text flow" settings for the table, so that it goes beyond the space that seems to be available in the header and covers the entire page. The problem is then that the text in the text layer is being "pushed away". I would like to use this table as a kind of watermark.
As a translator I'm being confronted quite often with this kind of layout that looks like a preprinted form that is filled out: a repeating table with three rows (header, central row for the "fill-out text", and a footer).
With Word 2003 I used this trick with the table in a text box in the header quite often, and it worked, whereas I'm having lots of problems with it in Word 2010.