Printing text boxes, but not watermark

[Eric L.]

Is there any way to print text boxes, but not print background
graphics/watermarks?

I am trying to create a Word document that has a picture of an invitation
the user will be printing to, with text boxes put in strategic places so
that they can just type in them and print away. I want them to have the
picture of the invitation in the background so that they can see how it will
look before they print. BUT, I don't actually want the picture to print out.

I know that to keep a watermark from printing, you can go to "Print
Options..." and uncheck "Print drawings created in Word". But, I have text
boxes I want to print out--this checkbox will disable watermarks -and- text
boxes.

Thank you for reading, and any suggestions are most welcome.

 

[Eric L.]

Update:

I have changed the text boxes to frames as part of the Word forms and
controls suite. I think this will do it.

Another question: can I make a frame editable if I protect the document? It
sounds like you can only edit text boxes, but I want to have multiple lines
and text boxes don't handle multiple lines very well.

Also, if someone has a better way for me to do this, I'm all ears.

 

[Eric L.]

I've found yet another way to do this. I went to "Fill Effect...", chose
"Picture" and inserted it that way. Then, you can disable "Background
colors and images" from printing, but still keep "Drawings", which leaves
the text boxes alone.

However, with solution #3 comes unintended side effect #3: the fill effect
feature shrinks the size of the image by about 75%. I can't figure out why.
I am positive the image is 6x8, but it tiles as a ~4.5x6 image. inserting
it as a watermark at 100% size fills the page. I open up the image in an
image editor and it shows as being 6"x8". But I have to increase the size
of the image to 130% its original size to fill the page using this method.
Why the heck would it do this?