Adding a watermark in Word 2000

[HowardMarks]

I wonder if somebody could help me, before I pull out my hair and go mad. I've been trying to add a watermark into a word document for the last 2 hours, and haven't had any luck even when following the tutorial in the help system.

I have a large jpg image which is already suitably faded etc for use as a watermark. Only a section of this image will be used as the background (i.e. the rest will overlap the sides of the document and not be printed).

Following the tutorial, it suggest that I go to view headers/footers, and click the 'hide' bodytext button on the headers toolbar. So far so good. Then I go to insert>picture and find the file. Doing this inserts the image into the header box, and shrinks it to fit the width of the header, which is not what the tutorial suggests should happen. I need to insert the image at full size into the centre of the page, with the ability to drag it to the exact position i require.

The annoying thing is, I already have a word document where this has been done, but i can't work out how to reproduce it, or even replace the existing background with my own.

Could anyone help?

Thanks alot,

Nick



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[luds]

Try putting the image in the header...then right click "Format Autoshape".
Click the "Size" tab...then check the 'Lock aspect ratio' box.. now you can increase the percentage size until you have the size that you want.

luds