How to Create a Watermark Using Microsoft Office 2007

A watermark is a background picture or text used to personalize documents. In Microsoft Office 2007, enhancing a project with a watermark is an easy thing to do.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Page Layout Tab Open a document in Microsoft Office 2007 and choose the Page Layout tab on the document header. Select the Watermark Menu.
2. Custom Watermark Option Select Custom Watermark to create a background picture.
3. Watermark Submenu Select Picture or Text option.
4. Whole Page Watermark Choose either the Picture option or the Text option. To use the Picture option, browse your computer for a picture you previously saved in a file. (You may need to create and save a suitable picture using the Paint program before you begin step one.) Alternately, select Text and choose your desired text from the available menu options. To get a whole page watermark, select 100% from the Scale dropdown menu.
5. * To create your own text, you will need to treat your text as a picture by typing a text box in the Paint program and saving it as a picture file. You would then select the Picture Watermark option and browse your computer for your text "picture".
   
   * Watermarks are faded by default. To have your watermark appear full strength, de-select the 'Washout" or "Semitransparent" box.
6. You are now ready to add your watermark to a project. For ideas on how to use a watermark to enhance a resume go to http://www.ehow.com/how_2243880_design-one-page-resume.html