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Word Design > Watermark > Remove workmark does not work
The initial add watermark only added one to three pages in the document. Subsequent attempts to remove the watermarks do not work. I tried the work-around of clicking on the header, but the waterma...
A possible contributing factor is that this is a report that is regularly updated, and the first version was done with an earlier version 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.