Watermark+text+or+picture

Watermark text or picture

Making Watermarked stationary can be very convoluted if you follow all the so‐called experts

However if you follow my tip it can be quite easy and it works

First decide whether you want an Image as your water mark or Text.

If you want an image i.e. Prince of Wales feathers.

First download from the Net the picture you want and save it to My pictures for example or whatever folder location you prefer.

If you want Text it is a bit more involved but not to much.

You will need a Prg. such as Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Draw, or the crème de la crème Adobe Photoshop CS.

The reason being the Text Box in Word is very restricted in what you can do, and is better ignored.

To deal with the latter first i. e. Text proceed as follows:‐

Open you preferred Prg. or what you are stuck with, lets say Microsoft Photodraw

Select Text > Insert Text > A box will appear stating “Your Text Here” on the left‐hand side there is a panel in which you can first choose your font and the size, I suggest to start 48points.

Now type what you wish to appear on you stationary

When finished Save as a Jpeg to My Pictures or wherever.

Do not concern yourself here how the final effect should be because we do that later.

Now open Word > new page.

In order to see what the stationary will be like with type on it fill a couple of pages with type by typing the following “=Rand(10,10)” [Without the quotes]

{ See my tip Quick brown fox}

Now pull down the View menu and click “ Header and Footer” Next pull down the Insert menu and click “Picture > From File. Browse to My Pictures and click on the text you have saved there.

The text should be surrounded with stretching arrows and in the middle at the top a small vertical line with a green dot at the end.

Now you can play to your hearts content, on how it should look on the paper and where by using the stretch arrow ,and the revolve green dot.

You will note that as you move the text around on the first page the action is copied on the second page.

To get a full impression go to Zoom on the toolbar and in the pull down arrow choose Whole Page.

Now for the clever bit :‐.

The text you have pasted is not behind the Quick brown fox, so we need to rectify that by going to the small toolbar named Picture toolbar

( If it is not opened go to View > Toobars > and tick Picture ).

Now click on the second icon from the left and choose “Wash‐Out/Watermark “depending on which version of Word you have. Voila ! a very pale washed out text just what we want.

Next click on the Icon which looks like a dog in a box and choose “ Behind Text” Once again check whether the Watermark is exactly where you want it to be

( You can change the location and size even when you are writing letters which I will explain further on.)

Next hold Down CTRL and press A to highlight the quick brown fox and delete :‐

( See my tip :‐ Highlight the quick way )

This is the final bit :‐

Go to File > Save as > type the name you wish but save it as a “ .dot” file

In My Documents ,where you can always find and load it first before typing your letters.

Remember to close it before you try it out by clicking the Close on the Header and Foot Toolbar named “Insert Auto text “at usually the top of the page.

All the above applies to a Clip or picture, follow the procedure exactly and you will have the same effect only you will now have the Prince of Wales Feathers for example.

You will by now realise you can have a combination of Picture and Text and if you download from Microsoft Clip Gallery, you can even have borders, or graphic corners, the combinations are endless. Note if the picture is coloured choose to make it Black and White first with the second Icon from the left again and then Wash it out, or if you really wish have it coloured Why not ?

When you are typing a note or a letter in the future and for example the Watermark is to large

Pull down the view menu and click “Header and Footer”

You will now be able to size the watermark for that note,

Do not worry it doesn’t effect the one you have saved.

But once again remember to click on the Close on the Header and footer toolbar as above.