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Word Design > Watermark > Remove workmark does not work
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Those are parts of my webpage on Sections because Watermarks are parts of headers which are a part of sections.
All Watermarks in Word are images in a header (or footer). Whether or not the Remove Watermark will remove it depends on whether or not it was inserted in the page using the Insert Watermark command and on which version of Word was used for the insertion. The current method of insertion adds a tag to it so that Word recognizes it as a Watermark.
The troubleshooting part deals with putting different watermarks on different pages and with watermarks that will not delete.
With your watermark that you want on all pages and only shows up on three, a workaround would be to find it in the header of one of the pages that does have it, copy it, and then paste it into the header of the pages that do not have it.
Word does not come with Windows. It is a separate software program usually bundled as a part of Office or Microsoft 365. You can find your version of Word using File > Account > About Word (in Windows versions of Word).
- Yes. Earlier versions of Word did not necessarily mark Watermarks the same way.
- File > Account > About Word appears to give me the version of Word installed (2303 in my case), but how do I determine the version of the document format? Loading an existing document with a newer version of Word does not seem to update the document format. Is there a command or tool to update existing documents to match a later version of Word? Not using watermarking is not a big deal, I'll just put bold text in the headers and avoid that feature, but non-backwards-compatibility in general can cause problems unless there are feature to support configuration management.
Hi Steve,
There is no method I know of to tell which version of Word created a document. Any document that was created (or last edited) in an earlier version of Word will display Compatibility Mode in the title bar. Under File > Info you can update such a file to the current version. That will not, though, change whether or not something has been marked as a Watermark.
Again, I urge you to review the part of my Sections chapter on troubleshooting Watermarks.