MS Word 2013 Watermark appears only when editing headers of footers

The watermark feature was working fine with Word 2013 until recently, although I cannot say when it started to fail. I noticed that any watermark I add to a document or template only shows in the pa...

Oscard_3131

Copper Contributor

Mar 22, 2022

Stefan_Blom, thanks for the response.
To answer your question, yes, the watermark does appear also when in print preview.

Before yesterday, I used the watermark several times when editing similar documents to differentiate between them.

Moreover, this problem is affecting other docs and templates that already had the watermark working correctly.

This problem seems to affect my copy of Word 2013 only because my two Word 2019 copies on two different PCS open the same documents and they show the watermark normally.

I wonder whether there is a settings file that resides somewhere in the affected PC that the online repair did not modify.

Any help would be appreciated.