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Old 11-10-2014, 01:51 PM
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I am an expert in Word. I have tried to delete a watermark but it won't delete. I tried to change the text to white but it only changes a part of the word "Draft" I have tried everything I know and it won't delete the Draft watermark. Any other suggestions? I even saved the document as an RTF and tried to delete it but it stayed.
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Using Page Layout|Watermark>Remove Watermark is usually sufficient. Failing that, you should be able select the item and delete it. If neither of those approaches work, perhaps you could attach a document to a post with just the watermark? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.
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Old 11-10-2014, 03:50 PM
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I went into the footer and was able to select the watermark. Then I deleted it. It went away. I did that for every section of the document. Finally I had a document without the watermark.
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I have tried the Design >Watermark method and although it will add a watermark to my document it wont remove the existing watermark. It's the Draft one. I would have thought that it would be possible to Select a watermark from the Watermark list and then Select Remove.

Next I tried the double click on the header sectin method but cannot get Word to select the watermark. I am using Windows 10 and Word 1911 (Builld 12228.20364 Click-to-Run)


Maybe irrelevant but the watermark is beneath a table. The document has three pages. I did not create the document but have to publish it.

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I have tried the Design >Watermark method and although it will add a watermark to my document it wont remove the existing watermark. It's the Draft one. I would have thought that it would be possible to Select a watermark from the Watermark list and then Select Remove.
My advice was to use Page Layout|Watermark>Remove Watermark...
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My advice was to use Page Layout|Watermark>Remove Watermark...
I am using Word 2016. Watermark is on the Design tab in that version.
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Thanks Paul. I need to find my way around again
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Watermarks can be complicated. See my section on Troubleshooting Watermarks. It deals with this problem.


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Watermarks can be complicated. See my section on Troubleshooting Watermarks. It deals with this problem.



Thanks i have already done that. For some reason the watermark can not be removed.
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Thanks i have already done that. For some reason the watermark can not be removed.
Can you attach the page with the Watermark (as a document, not a screenshot)?
How to attach a file in this forum.


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Thanks Charles. Attached file. Please note I did manage to remove one of the watermarks and part of another, using Layout (but there is no watermark option I just selected the watermark. The author had used a a custom layout and three tables rather than one and had not set the table width to a percentage value. I usually copy and paste into a CMS using CKEditor.
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Neither of these are traditional watermarks. They are images placed on the page behind the table and you are right they are hard to reach.

I used the Selection Pane.

You get to the Selection Pane from the Home tab in the Editing Group toward the right end.
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Neither of these are traditional watermarks. They are images placed on the page behind the table and you are right they are hard to reach.

I used the Selection Pane.

You get to the Selection Pane from the Home tab in the Editing Group toward the right end.

Thanks Charles! Thanks a million!
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