Many thanks for your time, after your success I went back and tried the macro on a brand new document and it worked for me too.

I then went back to the original template and still had the same problems! There must be something in the headers or margins that is affecting the placement of the Draft watermark. There is too much time invested in my template to start again, so I started looking for other ways around the problem.

The header in the document are already being used to store page numbers in frames, with mirror placements on add and even pages and bookmarks etc. However, when I checked the template I noticed the footers were not being used.

I changed the macro to use the footers instead, and hey-presto it's working. Can't explain why, grateful I have a solution, and a tip for other keep at it and think outside the box.

Many thanks for you time and giving me the emphasis to check again.
Cheers

Steve