Backgrounds and Watermarks

What is Backgrounds and Watermarks

Backgrounds are primarily used in a Web browser to create a more interesting background for online viewing. However, you can display backgrounds in Web layout and most other views, except normal view and outline view.

Watermarks are text or pictures that appear behind document text. They often add interest or identify the document status, such as marking a document as a "Draft." Watermarks are intended for printed documents.

Use gradients, patterns, pictures, solid colors, or textures for backgrounds. Gradients, patterns, pictures, and textures are tiled, or repeated, to fill the page. When you save a document as a Web page, the textures and gradients are saved as JPEG files and the patterns are saved as GIF files.

You can see watermarks in print layout view or on a printed document. If you use a picture, you can lighten it, or wash it out, so that it doesn't interfere with document text. If you use text, you can select from built-in phrases, or enter your own.

Change the color of text

1. Select the text you want to change.
2. Do one of the following:

o        To apply the color most recently used for text, click Font Color on the Formatting toolbar.

o        To apply a different color, click the arrow next to Font Color, and then select the color you want.

Add a background or watermark

Do one of the following:

Add a background color or texture to a Web page, online document, or e-mail message

1. On the Format menu, point to Background.
2. Do one of the following:

o        Click the color you want.

o        Click More Colors to see additional color choices.

o        Click Fill Effects to change or add special effects, such as gradients (gradient: A gradual progression of colors and shades, usually from one color to another color, or from one shade to another shade of the same color.), textures, or patterns.

Add a watermark to a printed document

1. On the Format menu, point to Background, and then click Printed Watermark.
2. Do one of the following:

o        To insert a picture as a watermark, click Picture Watermark, and then click Select Picture. Select the picture you want, and then click Insert.

o        To insert a text watermark, click Text Watermark, and then select or enter the text that you want.

3. Select any additional options that you want, and then click Apply.
4. To view a watermark as it will appear on the printed page, use print layout view 

·         If you want to use an object, such as an AutoShape (AutoShapes: A group of ready-made shapes that includes basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars and banners, and callouts.), as a watermark, you can manually paste or insert it into the document header (header and footer: A header, which can consist of text or graphics, appears at the top of every page in a section. A footer appears at the bottom of every page. Headers and footers often contain page numbers, chapter titles, dates, and author names.). You cannot use the Printed Watermark dialog box to control these settings.

Note  If you want to add a theme (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.), which includes document backgrounds, design elements, and color schemes, use the Themes command on the Format menu.