Locking a Background Image in Word? Help!

[bappy15]

Ok, so I need a full-page background image to appear on every page of a
document. Therefore, I inserted it as a Watermark... which works well.
However, when I go to edit the header or footer, the background image
is selectable, and can accidentally be moved. Which is frustrating.

Is there any way to lock it in position so that a user cannot
accitentally move it? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

The best way to do this is to tell the users that if they move it, they are
responsible for putting it back in the right place, and that you have a
program to check for this and automatically reduce their salary by ten per
cent for each document you find they have saved with the picture in the
wrong place.

Be convincing: Fear and Terror, threats and violence are a much underused
motivational technique in the workplace.

Other than that, you *can* create the watermark in Section 1 and protect
that section with a password. Leave the remaining sections of the document
unprotected.

Users could then disable the watermark by unlinking the headers in the
unprotected section, but they won't be able to move the picture because they
won't be able to get into the section that contains it.

Cheers

Ok, so I need a full-page background image to appear on every page of a
document. Therefore, I inserted it as a Watermark... which works well.
However, when I go to edit the header or footer, the background image
is selectable, and can accidentally be moved. Which is frustrating.

Is there any way to lock it in position so that a user cannot
accitentally move it? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[bappy15]

Haha! I do like the fear and terror approach... might result in a
decrease in business though. I have to admit, I don't know much about
Word. I usually work in Adobe programs, so this is a challenge for me.
Can you explain more about Sections and protecting them? That's a whole
new language to me.

Thanks so much!!!
Beth

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Beth:

Start with the Word Help topic "About sections and section breaks"

Then read this article, and follow the instructions for Word 2000:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888184/en-us

A "Section" can be thought of as a "document within a document".

The "Protect document" command restricts the kinds of editing allowed in the
document. You can protect either the entire document, or just one or more
of the sections of it.

The headers and footers are stored in the section break that follows them in
the text of the document.

If you protect the section containing the headers and footers (normally, the
very first section in the document) from changes, you protect the headers
and footers from changes.

Cheers

Haha! I do like the fear and terror approach... might result in a
decrease in business though. I have to admit, I don't know much about
Word. I usually work in Adobe programs, so this is a challenge for me.
Can you explain more about Sections and protecting them? That's a whole
new language to me.

Thanks so much!!!
Beth

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410