Insert a watermark

1. On the Design tab, select Watermark.

2. Choose a pre-configured watermark, like DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, or DO NOT COPY.

3. For placing a logo or image, Select Watermark > Custom Watermark > Picture watermark > Select Picture. On the same menu you can create a custom text watermark.

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On the Design tab, select Watermark.

1. In the Insert Watermark dialog, select Text and either type your own watermark text or select one, like DRAFT, from the list. Then, customize the watermark by setting the font, layout, size, colors, and orientation.

   

   If you don’t see the watermark, click View > Print Layout. This also shows how the printed watermark will look.

2. Select OK.

In Word for the web, you can see watermarks that are already in a document, but you can’t change them or insert new ones.

If you have the Word desktop application, use the Open in Word command to open the document and insert or change a watermark there. When you’re done and you save the document, it will continue to be stored where you opened it in Word for the web. When you reopen it, you’ll see the watermarks in the doc.