Select a watermark from the displayed gallery or create a custom watermark (covered in previous blog, link below).On the Design tab, in the Page Background group, choose Watermark.Place the cursor on the page (after the section break) where you want the watermark to appear:* Sections are linked by default so you need to unlink them, before inserting the watermark or sections will automatically copy each other. You can then apply a watermark only to that section. If you want different headers or footers, margins or layout for one or more of the pages, the trick is to create section break(s)Īdd a watermark only to particular pages by creating a section break. This applies the same page layout, margins etc., across the board. For steps to display a text or image watermark on all pages, see the link to a previous blog for watermarks below.īy default, Word documents are all in the same section (Section 1), regardless of the number of pages you create. The steps below will accomplish both these tasks. A Watermark is inserted on all pages by default but sometimes you want it only on selected pages or only on one page.

Sample watermark on all pages word