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On 7/8/05, Gerald Bourguignon <gbourguignon -at- johnstonmadvac -dot- com> wrote:
> I can't remember the term for it at the moment, but I want to print "DRAFT"
> or "PRELIMINARY" in large gray letters diagonally across each page using
> Word. I have done this with FM in the past, but not with Word. Perhaps if
> I knew the correct term for this I could find it in the Word help.
Gerald,
The term you're looking for is "watermark," in Word's vernacular. In
Word 2003, it works like so:
(1) Format --> Background --> Printed Watermark
(2) Select "Text Watermark" and specify the text content, font, size
and position.
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