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Subject:Text Beneath Text From:George Hayhoe <GFHayhoe -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 May 1995 09:44:46 -0400
In response to Mike Mcgraw's question:
What do you call the larger-size, lightly-shaded text often printed
underneath a normal page of text and used to identify the page as
"PRELIMINARY" or "CONFIDENTIAL" ??
I've seen this called a watermark. In fact, MS Word's online help uses this
terminology. ("A watermark is text or a graphic . . . that appears on every
page of a document.") You can locate the instructions for doing this with
Word by searching for help on the term "watermarks."
