How to Add a Water Mark to a Word Document

Most of us seen water marks in many papers especially in exam answer papers etc. With Microsoft Word We can set a water mark in our document to separate it from others. Also water mark help us to distinguish our documents from others. We can either insert a text water mark or a picture water mark

Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (2002)/2003:

Open the Word document that you want to add watermark to.
Select "Format" from the top menu, then select "Background", then "Printed Watermark".In the "Printed Watermark" dialog: 1 To insert a text watermark:
• Select the "Text watermark".
• Then, either select a pre-defined text from the drop-down, or type in your desire text on the "Text" field.
• Customize your watermark with other options in this dialog such as text size, text color, etc, then click "OK".
• Watermark is now inserted into your document.
  
  
2 To insert an image watermark:
• Select the "Picture watermark".
• Then click on the button "Select Picture...".
• Navigate to the directory where your watermark picture is located. Select it and click "Insert".
• Select a customized scale if desired, then click "OK".
• The image is now inserted into your document as watermark.

But in Microsoft windows 2007/2010

we want to open the word document and select the tab “Page layout”

and select page background group select the water mark.

Then do the step 1 or 2to add the specified water mark.