Microsoft Word 2010 Step by Step

Microsoft Word 2010 Step by Step

<DIV><p>Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to create impressive documents with Word 2010. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include using styles and themes; sharing, printing, and publishing documents; editing images from within Word; using SmartArt® diagrams and charts; creating references, footnotes, indexes, and tables of contents; collaborating with multiple people at the same time on the same document; and turning your ideas into blogs, Web pages, and more.</p> <br> <br> <span class="h1"> <strong>From Inside the Book: How to Add Watermarks</strong> </span> <br> <br> There might be times when you want words to appear behind the text of a printed or online document. For example, you might want the word <i>CONFIDENTIAL</i> to appear faintly behind the text in a contract. When you want to dress up the pages of your document without distracting attention from the main text, you might consider displaying a faint graphic behind the text. These faint background effects are called watermarks. Watermarks are visible in a document, but because they are faint, they don’t interfere with the readers’ ability to view the document’s main text. <br> <br> In this exercise, you’ll first add a text watermark to every page of a document, and then you’ll add a graphic watermark. <br> <br> <strong>SET UP</strong> You need the AuthorsDraft_start document and the OTSI-Logo picture located in your Chapter09 practice file folder to complete this exercise. Open the AuthorsDraft_start document, and save it as <i>AuthorsDraft</i>. Turn off formatting marks and the ruler, and set the magnification so that you can see all the text. Then follow the steps. <br> <br> <ul>1. On the <strong>Page Layout</strong> tab, in the <strong>Page Background</strong> group, click the <strong>Watermark</strong> button.</ul> <table align="center" bgcolor="#fffff" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/orly/word10_1.gif" align="center" border="0"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br> <br> The Watermark gallery appears. <br> <table align="center" bgcolor="#fffff" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/orly/word10_2.gif" align="center" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><font size="1">You can click the thumbnail of a predefined watermark<br> or click Custom Watermark to define your own.</font></center></td> </tr></tbody></table> <br> <br> <ul>2. Scroll to the bottom of the gallery, noticing the available options. Clicking any of these options inserts the specified watermark in pale blue on every page of the current document. <br> 3. Below the gallery, click <strong>Custom Watermark</strong>. The Printed Watermark dialog box opens.</ul> <br> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFF" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/orly/word10_3.gif" align="center" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><font size="1">In this dialog box, you can specify a <br>picture or text watermark.</font></center></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br> <ul> 4. Click <strong>Text watermark</strong>, display the <strong>Text</strong> list, and then click <strong>DRAFT</strong>. <br> 5. Ensure that <strong>Verdana</strong> appears in the <strong>Font</strong> box. <br> 6. Click the <strong>Color</strong> arrow, and then click the purple box (<strong>Purple, Accent 4</strong>). <br> 7. With the <strong>Semitransparent</strong> check box and <strong>Diagonal</strong> option selected, click <strong>OK</strong>. The specified text is inserted diagonally across the page.</ul> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFF" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/orly/word10_4.gif" align="center" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><font size="1">The text watermark is faint enough to read the text<br> but bold enough to be noticed.</font></center></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <ul> 8. On the <strong>Page Layout</strong> tab, in the <strong>Page Background</strong> group, click the <strong>Watermark</strong> button, and then click <strong>Custom Watermark</strong>. <br> 9. In the <strong>Printed Watermark</strong> dialog box, click <strong>Picture watermark</strong>, and then click <strong>Select Picture</strong>. The Insert Picture dialog box opens. <br> 10. Navigate to your <strong>Chapter09</strong> practice file folder, and double-click the <strong>OTSI-Log</strong> picture file. <br> 11. In the <strong>Printed Watermark</strong> dialog box, change the <strong>Scale</strong> setting to <strong>200%</strong>, and then click <strong>Apply</strong>. <br> 12. Drag the dialog box by its title bar until you can see the watermark. Then change the <strong>Scale</strong> setting by typing <strong>400%</strong>, and click <strong>Apply</strong>. <br> 13. With the <strong>Washout</strong> check box selected, click <strong>Close</strong>. The picture is inserted as a watermark at the size you specified.</ul> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFF" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/orly/word10_5.gif" align="center" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><font size="1">The picture watermark adds visual interest <br>without obscuring the text.</font></center></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <ul><strong>CLEAN UP</strong> Save the AuthorsDraft document, and then close it.</ul> </div>