(e-mail address removed) (Mike Dalton) wrote ...
I am running with Word 2000. I have a document with a watermark. I
want to move and resize the watermark on the document but am unable to
'select' it. Also when I do a Print Preview the watermark shows being
behind the text. When I print the document the watermark is in front
of the text and hides it.
If it's any actual watermark (appears on every page), go to View menu
Header and Footer. The picture now ought to be selectable, and you
can do all the usual things to it. If you can't quite tell what you're
doing because the grayed-out document text is in the way, you can turn
off displaying the text - there's a button for that on the Headers and
Footers toolbar.
If it's just a picture that was inserted, then sent behind the text,
turn on the Select Objects pointer from the Drawing toolbar. You
should be able to select the picture despite the text in front of it,
because the Select Objects pointer ignores text. You can also click
and drag to draw a box around the picture, and select it that way -
this is useful if you need to select more than one object.
As far as the watermark printing in front of text, are you sure it's
not just too dark for the text to show up on top of it? If the picture
is in the header, it will look grayed out in print preview even if
it's not actually lighter than normal. Go to header/footer view again:
does the image look light and watermarky? If not, select it, press the
Image Control button on the Picture toolbar, and select the Watermark
setting. Alternatively, you can fiddle with the brightness & contrast
until it looks about right. If you now close header/footer view, the
image will look even more grayed out, but it will print the way it
looked in header/footer view.
