Watermark won't show on a Table

[MCain]

I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a table. The
watermark goes behind the table.

I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I have tried
going into the header section and selecting the watermark and choosing bring
to front.

If I don't have header section selected the bring to front option is grayed
and not available to use at all.

Nothing I've tried works.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I'm using Word 2007 and need to put a DRAFT watermark over a table. The
watermark goes behind the table.

I cannot get it to come to the front no matter what I do. I have tried
going into the header section and selecting the watermark and choosing bring
to front.

If I don't have header section selected the bring to front option is grayed
and not available to use at all.

Nothing I've tried works.

Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is anchored in the
header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert it in the
regular text on the page with the table.

I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this version because it
doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no matter how
unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my educated guess.)

If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert section breaks
before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button in the Header &
Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste copies of the
watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following sections.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jay,

I'm not sure I'm following, in seeing this as a bug. I may be missing a step <g>.

If the table is in the document layer and the Text Watermark (WordArt) background is in the header/footer layer it wouldn't be
available to be in front of the table/text (or for that matter when a 'watermark' would be considered to normally in front of text
<g>.

The cut and paste would basically be the same as creating WordArt in the text and putting it over the text/table. Anchoring it to
the header row, if the header row repeats in the table will repeat the WordArt on each page.

Also, adding the Watermark to a different gallery, such as QuickParts or Autotext, rather than Watermark, will change the behavior
of the item so it's available in the document layer

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Nothing I've tried works, either -- as long as the DRAFT is anchored in the
header. What does work is to cut it from the header and reinsert it in the
regular text on the page with the table.

I'd say this is a bug, but not likely to be fixed in this version because it
doesn't involve loss of data and it does have a workaround, no matter how
unpalatable. (I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just my educated guess.)

If the whole document needs the watermark, you'll want to insert section breaks
before and after this page, turn off the Link To Previous button in the Header &
Footer ribbon for this page and the following section, and paste copies of the
watermark back into the headers of the preceding and following sections.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or, if the watermark doesn't show on the page at all, why not leave well
enough alone and just add the graphic to the page, leaving the invisible
watermark behind?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Bob,

Thinking of the object _as a watermark_ your comments are reasonable -- a
watermark should be behind the text layer, never in front of it. I was thinking
of it as simply another graphic, for which "in front of text" is an available
wrapping option but appears not to work. In fact, though, I suppose you could
bring the watermark in front of any text that happened to be in the
header/footer layer -- but all of that would still be behind the text layer.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I was assuming that at least some of the watermark might stick out above and
below the table, and it would be best not to have two of them floating about.

 

[MCain]

So I'm guessing it can't be done??

I appreciate everyone's thoughts.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've been told how it can be done.

 

[MCain]

Sorry to be so dumb. But I guess I'm just not following the instructions.

I need the watermark to go across the page in front of a table. The table
has colored columns. When I try to insert WordArt in with the text or copy
and paste it, it messes up the table.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages,
there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not inside the
table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark.

If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in line
with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of text".
You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[MCain]

Thank you so much! That worked.

Unless the table is so long that it extends across more than two pages,
there will be at least one paragraph mark on the page that is not inside the
table. Click in that paragraph and paste the watermark.

If any of the text moves, then the watermark has been pasted as "in line
with text"; click the Text Wrapping button and choose "In front of text".
You may have to drag the watermark to the center of the page.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[MCain]

I forgot to mention that I could NOT get it to work with the regular
watermark feature.

Here are the steps that I used:

Click inside your paragraph
Go to WordArt – I use Style 2 (which angles across the page)
Choose Font and size
Type your watermark (DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, etc) – hit OK
This will insert it into the paragraph
Click on it to resize it
Right click and choose “format WordArtâ€
In Line Section choose “no colorâ€
In color choose a gray shade then set the transparency slider
Go to Page Layout Tab and click the Text Wrapping button – choose “In Front
of Text†– this will send it to the bottom of the page.
Select it and drag it to where you want it.
You can still adjust the color and transparency by right clicking on it and
choosing “format WordArtâ€.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The built-in watermark is really no different from this. You should be able
to cut or copy and paste that into the document body and change the wrapping
to In Front of Text to get exactly the same effect.