It might be useful to you, but do consider whether posting your preferred solution so long after the matter has been resolved actually contributes to solving the original poster's problem.

In this case, you may think "using header and footer is a better way than using watermark", but that only shows ignorance of the fact that a watermark also uses the header - typically by inserting a shape object into it. So there is in fact no case where "header and footer is a better way than watermark".

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]