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Watermark won't show on a Table
Thank you so much! That worked.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages, there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not inside the table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark. If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in line with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of text". You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. MCain wrote: Sorry to be so dumb. But I guess I'm just not following the instructions. I need the watermark to go across the page in front of a table. The table has colored columns. When I try to insert WordArt in with the text or copy and paste it, it messes up the table. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You've been told how it can be done. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MCain" wrote in message ... So I'm guessing it can't be done?? :-) I appreciate everyone's thoughts. "Jay Freedman" wrote: I was assuming that at least some of the watermark might stick out above and below the table, and it would be best not to have two of them floating about. On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:11:47 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or, if the watermark doesn't show on the page at all, why not leave well enough alone and just add the graphic to the page, leaving the invisible watermark behind? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:18:01 -0700, MCain wrote: I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a table. The watermark goes behind the table. I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I have tried going into the header section and selecting the watermark and choosing bring to front. If I don't have header section selected the bring to front option is grayed and not available to use at all. Nothing I've tried works. Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is anchored in the header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert it in the regular text on the page with the table. I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this version because it doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no matter how unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my educated guess.) If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert section breaks before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button in the Header & Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste copies of the watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following sections. |
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Watermark won't show on a Table
I forgot to mention that I could NOT get it to work with the regular
watermark feature. Here are the steps that I used: Click inside your paragraph Go to WordArt – I use Style 2 (which angles across the page) Choose Font and size Type your watermark (DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, etc) – hit OK This will insert it into the paragraph Click on it to resize it Right click and choose “format WordArt” In Line Section choose “no color” In color choose a gray shade then set the transparency slider Go to Page Layout Tab and click the Text Wrapping button – choose “In Front of Text” – this will send it to the bottom of the page. Select it and drag it to where you want it. You can still adjust the color and transparency by right clicking on it and choosing “format WordArt”. "MCain" wrote: Thank you so much! That worked. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages, there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not inside the table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark. If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in line with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of text". You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. MCain wrote: Sorry to be so dumb. But I guess I'm just not following the instructions. I need the watermark to go across the page in front of a table. The table has colored columns. When I try to insert WordArt in with the text or copy and paste it, it messes up the table. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You've been told how it can be done. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MCain" wrote in message ... So I'm guessing it can't be done?? :-) I appreciate everyone's thoughts. "Jay Freedman" wrote: I was assuming that at least some of the watermark might stick out above and below the table, and it would be best not to have two of them floating about. On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:11:47 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or, if the watermark doesn't show on the page at all, why not leave well enough alone and just add the graphic to the page, leaving the invisible watermark behind? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:18:01 -0700, MCain wrote: I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a table. The watermark goes behind the table. I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I have tried going into the header section and selecting the watermark and choosing bring to front. If I don't have header section selected the bring to front option is grayed and not available to use at all. Nothing I've tried works. Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is anchored in the header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert it in the regular text on the page with the table. I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this version because it doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no matter how unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my educated guess.) If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert section breaks before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button in the Header & Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste copies of the watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following sections. |
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Watermark won't show on a Table
The built-in watermark is really no different from this. You should be able
to cut or copy and paste that into the document body and change the wrapping to In Front of Text to get exactly the same effect. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MCain" wrote in message news I forgot to mention that I could NOT get it to work with the regular watermark feature. Here are the steps that I used: Click inside your paragraph Go to WordArt - I use Style 2 (which angles across the page) Choose Font and size Type your watermark (DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, etc) - hit OK This will insert it into the paragraph Click on it to resize it Right click and choose "format WordArt" In Line Section choose "no color" In color choose a gray shade then set the transparency slider Go to Page Layout Tab and click the Text Wrapping button - choose "In Front of Text" - this will send it to the bottom of the page. Select it and drag it to where you want it. You can still adjust the color and transparency by right clicking on it and choosing "format WordArt". "MCain" wrote: Thank you so much! That worked. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages, there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not inside the table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark. If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in line with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of text". You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. MCain wrote: Sorry to be so dumb. But I guess I'm just not following the instructions. I need the watermark to go across the page in front of a table. The table has colored columns. When I try to insert WordArt in with the text or copy and paste it, it messes up the table. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You've been told how it can be done. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "MCain" wrote in message ... So I'm guessing it can't be done?? :-) I appreciate everyone's thoughts. "Jay Freedman" wrote: I was assuming that at least some of the watermark might stick out above and below the table, and it would be best not to have two of them floating about. On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:11:47 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or, if the watermark doesn't show on the page at all, why not leave well enough alone and just add the graphic to the page, leaving the invisible watermark behind? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:18:01 -0700, MCain wrote: I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a table. The watermark goes behind the table. I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I have tried going into the header section and selecting the watermark and choosing bring to front. If I don't have header section selected the bring to front option is grayed and not available to use at all. Nothing I've tried works. Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is anchored in the header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert it in the regular text on the page with the table. I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this version because it doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no matter how unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my educated guess.) If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert section breaks before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button in the Header & Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste copies of the watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following sections. |
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