Here’s one I solved for a work colleague Problem Word 2007 document with a stubborn ‘DRAFT’ watermark that won’t budge, despite going to the section and trying to remove it the usual way ( Page Layout tab > Watermark > Remove Watermark). Solution Watermarks have always been stored as part of the header in Word, so: • Turn off track changes. • Double-click inside the section’s header to open it. • Move your cursor over some of the letters in the watermark until it turns into a 4-way arrow. • Click to select the watermark (you’ll see colored selection handles around the watermark text when it’s selected). • Press the Delete key to remove the watermark. • Repeat for all other sections that have a stubborn watermark that you can’t remove.

Click on the Format menu at the top of the Word program and select the Bullets and Numbering option. In the Bullets and Numbering window, click on the Customize button on one of the first three tabs, depending on the type of list you are changing. In the window that opens, adjust the indent size for the bullet position and the text position.

Update February 2013: If the watermark still won’t delete, trying saving the document as XML — see Amy’s instructions in the Comments below (14 Oct 2012). Hi Kevin Can you run the mail merge again, but this time remove the ‘Draft’ watermark from the source letter? Are all the letters in one long document? If so, have you tried the ‘save as XML’ option (comment above by Amy, 14 October 2012)? If that doesn’t work, you might have to create some sort of macro to remove them from all section headers, or separate docs if they’re already separated out. I wouldn’t know where to start with that, so try asking about how to do that on the Microsoft community forums:. Someone there may be able to help you.

–Rhonda March 1, 2013 at 6:09 am. For those whom the Header>Select WM>Delete does not work try using a instead of a backspace or delete. I had the persistent problem, wrassled it in a dozen ways with no success did everything described above to no avail but “cutting” in lieu of deleting/backspaceing, etc. One final thought if none of that works, try two more “inelegant solutions”: 1. Go into the header and select the WM and change the text fill to white if on white paper/background it will work remembering you didn’t really get rid of it. MS Word also has under the MS Suite “logo” a Prepare>Inspect Document feature that when run, will identify if there are watermarks and offer to remove them.

Problem is, it will remove headers and footers at the same time. Hope this may help. Jim Mongold July 11, 2013 at 9:46 pm.

Are all of these solutions PC-based? Or for a newer version of Word? I’m running a Mac with MS Word 2004 Version 11.6. There’s no way to save as an XML document. There’s no way to “Prepare-Inspect Document.” When I open my Header, there’s nothing there so there’s nothing to select. Weirdest of all, this only happens on one printer.

I have three printers connected to my Mac and on the other two, no water mark appears. But on my hp Laser Jet Pro, I suddenly have the word “Draft” printed horizontally on every page. This just started. I’ve had the printer for a month. Under “Insert Watermark” the button for “No Watermark” has been selected.

I’ve re-selected it with no result. Can anyone help? Glinda September 2, 2013 at 5:13 am.

Hi Glinda Yes, this is PC-based, and Word 2007/2010 instructions. I suspect Word 2004 for Mac is based on Word 2003 for Windows, which did not have XML options.

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You say you only see this on ONE printer and that you’ve only had that printer for a month. I wonder if it’s a printer setting???

The reason I ask is that in Acrobat Professional (which is effectively a printer driver for producing PDFs), you can set a watermark independently of Word. It’s possible that your new printer has a similar option, so I suggest you go hunting around in your printer options, and read the Help/manual for your printer to see if a watermark can be set via the printer options. I just Googled for your printer name and the word ‘watermark’ and came up with this: And this: And this, where the user finally solved the problem by resetting the printer back to the factory defaults: –Rhonda September 2, 2013 at 6:10 am. “Watermark” may actually be WordArt, also held captive in the header. In your actual header, select words by holding your left mouse button down and scrolling over them and see if a box appears around your “watermark” as well, highlighting it. If so, it may actually be WordArt. Go back and begin scrolling over words in your header more slowly to select them to find out just when the box around your “watermark” appears.