Can I have a conditional watermark?

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Jane C

Hi, I've searched for an answer to this on various forums but can't find
anything. Is it possible to make a watermark conditional on the value of a
field or bookmark? I.e. I have a document status, which is bookmarked. If
the contents of the bookmark are "Draft", I'd like a text DRAFT watermark to
appear. When the document status is changed to Final, I'd like the watermark
to disappear automatically. I don't want to use VBA, and I'm using Word 2003
running on XP.

Thanks.
 
Jane C,

Yes. Well almost. Something will have to trigger the change. Simply
typing "Final" in the bookmark "Status" [Final] range won't do it.

You can create an AutoText entry of your Watermark. Call it myWatermark.
Insert some nested fields in the header:

{ IF {REF Status}="Draft"{AutoText myWatermark}""}

Provided "Update Fields" is set in your printer options then toggling
through Print Preview will trigger the update. Otherwise your users will
have to click in the header, CTRL+a (select all) and update fields (F9).
 
Hey that's very cool, thanks Greg.

Greg Maxey said:
Jane C,

Yes. Well almost. Something will have to trigger the change. Simply
typing "Final" in the bookmark "Status" [Final] range won't do it.

You can create an AutoText entry of your Watermark. Call it myWatermark.
Insert some nested fields in the header:

{ IF {REF Status}="Draft"{AutoText myWatermark}""}

Provided "Update Fields" is set in your printer options then toggling
through Print Preview will trigger the update. Otherwise your users will
have to click in the header, CTRL+a (select all) and update fields (F9).


Jane said:
Hi, I've searched for an answer to this on various forums but can't
find anything. Is it possible to make a watermark conditional on the
value of a field or bookmark? I.e. I have a document status, which
is bookmarked. If the contents of the bookmark are "Draft", I'd like
a text DRAFT watermark to appear. When the document status is changed
to Final, I'd like the watermark to disappear automatically. I don't
want to use VBA, and I'm using Word 2003 running on XP.

Thanks.
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