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Adding an overlay label to a page such as "Draft", "Confidential", etc.
I have Word 2013. You used to be able to add these labels across a page. Now we have "watermarks". So when I access the Watermarks pulldown menu on the Design page, what I see above the options, e.g....
First, when you print the page, it is darker than it appears on screen. Try it and see if that suffices.
Second, by their nature, Watermarks are supposed to be background. They are not intended to overwhelm the text.
A watermark, in Word is an image (perhaps a textbox with text) that is in the header.
When creating a custom text watermark, there is a checkbox to fade the image. You can uncheck that.
You can create your own using WordArt. Perhaps bold text in the margin! The following screenshots are from such an image in the header.
