MS Word 2013 Watermark appears only when editing headers of footers

Stefan,

I m sure that I responded to your message, but here I go again.

Thank you for the link.

Although it did not contain a solution to my specific issue, it did provide me with a lot of useful information.

While running yet another online searches, I found a site that had a post regarding a similar problem and its solution.

It happened that the disappearing watermark was caused by the contrast setting of the monitor, the settings of my video card, and the image rendering engine Word uses.

When I modified my monitor settings, I was able to see the watermark in Print Layout view.

Just for the sake of it, I changed monitors and this one was better, but no really clear.

After playing with my PC's video card settings, I managed to get a contrast setting that worked well enough with both monitors while in Print Layout view.

Then I remembered a post about the Word image rendering engine that has various problems in Print Layout view, such as printing double characters within a table cell created by merging two superimposed cells as well as changing the background color of certain table cells.

After further reviewing my notes from previous jobs, I realized that I had be finding problems with the image rendering engine since Word 2007, when they introduced the ribbon.

Go figure...

BTW, thank you very much for your assistance with this issue. 

Oscar