Creating Watermarks
By Richard C. Belthoff Jr.
Richard C. Belthoff Jr. is vice president and assistant general counsel at Wachovia Corp.
He can be reached via e-mail at richard.belthoff@wachovia.com.
Figure 1. You can create separate watermarks in the WordPerfect "Watermark" dialog.
In earlier versions of Corel WordPerfect, if you wanted to include a watermark on a page (e.g., the lightly shaded “Draft” that might appear behind an entire page of text), you had to insert the graphic image into one of the header codes. In more recent versions of WordPerfect, there are separate watermark codes available (“Watermark A” and “Watermark B”) in case you want to use different watermarks on odd or even pages (see Figure 1). This also allows you to have different types of headers and footers on the same page with a watermark — a feature that isn’t available in all word processing programs.
To insert a watermark into a WordPerfect document, select “Insert,” then “Watermark” to display the “Watermark” dialog. Click “Create.” The watermark editor will open. Editing a watermark is like editing a document: enter the text, graphics, tables or whatever you like into the editing window. For this example, to insert a graphic image, select “Insert,” “Graphic,” then “Clipart” to display the Scrapbook. Select the image you want to use. I selected “Draft” and clicked on “Insert.” If the “Draft” image isn’t in your Scrapbook, select “From File” instead of “Clipart,” and locate the “Watrm004.wpg” file on your hard drive. After you close the Scrapbook, the “Draft” image will appear in the watermark window, but instead of solid black, it will be shaded a light gray. This is so the image appears lighter behind your text.
You can adjust the brightness of the image (i.e., how dark the gray shading appears) by right clicking the image, selecting “Image Tools,” then “Brightness” from the “Image Tools” floating menu. You then can select one of the “Brightness” options to make the image lighter or darker.
Figure 2. WordPerfect can create gray
shaded watermarks behind text.
Click the “close” button to close the watermark editor window. When you are returned to your document, you should see the gray watermark behind your text (see Figure 2).
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