How do I edit an object in a Word template?

[palisi]

I am using a Word invoice template, specifically the 'bar' template. I'd like
to get rid of the main watermark behind the table and replace it with my
logo, however, I cannot get access to the watermark. Any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

View | Header and Footer. Select the watermark and press Delete. Watermarks
are just graphics anchored to the page header.

 

[PEVA]

Suzanne - Any way to get a watermark to show up on a photo (i.e., they show
up over text, but whenever they are where photos are, the photo hides them)?
Photos hiding watermarks defeats the purpose of watermarks.

 

[palisi]

try bringing the watermark all the way to the front, or the photo all the way
to the back, via the layering command under View-Formatting Palette.

 

[palisi]

Thanks! I knew how to do watermarks, but didn't know it was found under
header and footer.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think palisi is right: you'll have to put the watermark in front of the
photo. You can set the transparency such that the photo will show through
somewhat.

 

[PEVA]

"Ordering" ("Send to Back", "Send to Front", etc.) does not work for
watermarks over photos in Word 97 or 2000. Regardless of what you do with
them, the photo will block out the watermark (appear in front of it). I
should have stated that in my earlier post.

Has that been fixed in later versions of Word so that watermarks could
actually be useful in documents with photos in them? I have been looking for
a solution to this problem for a couple of years. Ordering was one of the
first things I tried.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I should have said that you cannot use a "watermark" in the sense of a
graphic anchored to the header; you'll have to use a copy of the watermark
graphic anchored to a paragraph on the page and put it in front of the
photo.

 

[PEVA]

Ahh - but that means having to manually paste that graphic on each page of a
document (vice only once in each section header). Another catch 22 for large
documents! Without being able to put it in the headers (or otherwise getting
it to show up on every page automatically), it's no good to me. Any other
way to get it to show up on every page of a section or document without
manually pasting it?

Oh - and palisi - sorry for hi-jacking your thread. I hope you don't mind
since it appears you got the answer you needed - it just kind of led
naturally into my problem.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Peva,

Well, a classic watermark was a barely visible 'signature' in the paper itself, meant to be non-intrusive. A (rubber) 'stamp' is
basically what would be something you overstrike/overlay with, although Microsoft is choosing to put background stamps in their
'printed watermark' by Powerplus feature. There is significance to the 'printed' term there, in that if you open a Word document
with a watermark and use File=>Web Page Preview, you can get a browser rendition of the document, but without the watermark. You
can, however, use the Background feature to have it appear in Webpage previews as well, but still, you can access the individual
pictures with no markings.

If you want the pictures marked, you may want to look at a graphics package that can batch process adding annotations/rubber stamps
to pictures (similar to how a digital camera embeds the date onto the picture) or 'picture watermarks' or send to PDF or other
format where the mark and picture are combined.

A problem with an 'on top' rubber-stamp watermark can be that what's under it becomes unreadable.

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Suzanne - Any way to get a watermark to show up on a photo (i.e., they show
up over text, but whenever they are where photos are, the photo hides them)?
Photos hiding watermarks defeats the purpose of watermarks. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[PEVA]

All good points, Bob.

Using the proper terminology then, what I want is a hybrid between rubber
stamp and watermark: a semi-transparent rubber stamp (no real-world analogy I
think), if you will. To my knowledge, there is no "stamp" tool in Word 2000.
Also, your comment about putting a stamp on the photos in a 3rd party
program, though correct, would not suit my purposes - which I guess I haven't
explicitly stated. I need, with a minimum of key strokes, to
indiscriminately and globally mark each page regardless of what's on it - not
mess with indivudual photos.

Here is my application: We (the company) is a testing lab - we are
contracted to do testing, and subsequently write a report (issued to the
government). We send a preliminary copy to our customer giving them one
chance to make a case for any changes they would like to see made to the
report before it is reviewed by a government witness and signed and
(literally) rubber stamped by the gov't witness. On the unsigned review
copy, we like to have a "stamp" saying "PRELIMINARY" across every page lest
someone be tempted to distribute an unreleased report as an official release.
We have traditionally referred to these as watermarks because we put them in
a faint color - typically yellow. Your comment about what's under such a
stamp being unreadable is well taken. What we do is select a font that has
thin lines, but set the size big enough so it is still visible, and - yes -
though it is opaque, usually the brain fills in the missing information (a
few letters that get partially or totally covered up) - not ideal - typos or
important characters (numerical data) could be missed, but it mostly works.

We actually pdf and lock the documents before sending them out - and I do in
fact use the "stamp" feature of Acrobat to accomplish this. A feature that
gets implemented like a "watermark" in Word would be quicker and easier -
hence my initial post.

Ideally what I would like is a stamp just like in Acrobat, *but* that has
some transparency to it - to eliminate the blocking out problem that you
mention. I have experimented with importing transparent images into an
Acrobat stamp, but transparent backgrounds and semi-transparent letters
always get made opaque in Acrobat (at least in every attempt I've made).
Getting back to the stamps on individual photos in the photo editing program:
as you can see - that would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do -
which is to quickly and globally (on every page) put a stamp that says
"PRELIMINARY" that doesn't care whether it's going over text or photo (or
overlapping both).

Anyway - I know this is long, but thanks for reading this far (if you have
in fact done so) - and if you have ideas about something that exists but that
I'm obviously ignorant of, please bring it up.

 

[PEVA]

Also, Bob - what is "Powerplus" I did a google search on that word and
couldn't make heads or tales of what came up. Is that a third-party program
or a MS add-on or plug in?