All You Need to Know about Watermarks in Microsoft Word 2013/2016

Watermarks in documents are usually used in business and office applications. You can use them to mark documents, for example, not yet finished as DRAFT, or secret as CONFIDENTIAL.

Of course, Word allows you to insert watermarks into documents. You can even configure by changing the text, color, font. You can also insert your own picture as a watermark.

Table of Contents

Insert Watermark on all pages

  1. In Design tab click Watermark button.

    Inserting Watermark
    Inserting Watermark - Click to enlarge
  2. Choose any watermark you like and click on it.

Insert Watermark on a specific page

  1. Go to page in your document where you want to insert the watermark.

  2. In Design tab click Watermark button.

    Inserting Watermark
    Inserting Watermark - Click to enlarge
  3. Right click watermark and choose Insert at Current Document Position.

    Inserting Watermark at Current Position
    Inserting Watermark at Current Position - Click to enlarge

Remove a Watermark

  1. In Design tab click Watermark button.

    Inserting Watermark
    Inserting Watermark - Click to enlarge
  2. At the bottom of the watermark window click Remove Watermark

    Remove watermark
    Remove watermark

Insert custom Watermark

  1. In Design tab click Watermark button.

    Inserting Watermark
    Inserting Watermark - Click to enlarge
  2. At the bottom of the watermark window click Custom Watermark

    Customize watermark
    Customize watermark - Click to enlarge
  3. Customize text

  4. Click on Text watermark option. Here you can change the Text that will be shown, font, size, color etc.

    Customize watermark text
    Customize watermark text -
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  5. Customize picture

  6. Click on Picture watermark option then Select Picture button. This will allow you to select image from disk or search the web using Bing Image Search

    Insert watermark from picture
    Insert watermark from picture - Click to enlarge

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