If this is a mail merge, why not duplicate the content of the document, add
the watermark as a background image to one of them, then print one copy?
Select the recipients and merge to the printer. The envelopes I would treat
as a separate merge if only because some printer drivers get hopelessly lost
when trying to intersperse envelopes and letters from different trays.
Another ruse would be to create the watermark as an autotext entry. Format
the watermark as a behind text image with the required degree of washout
then save as an autotext entry (in the following example called Copy). You
can then use the following macro to print one copy without the watermark
then another with. After the first print the document is saved. This you get
a file copy witjhout a watermark. After the second print it is closed
without saving. You can delete that line if you want to keep it open.
ActiveDocument.PrintOut
ActiveDocument.Save
NormalTemplate.AutoTextEntries("Copy").Insert _
Where:=Selection.Range, _
RichText:=True
ActiveDocument.PrintOut
ActiveDocument.Close (DoNotSaveChanges)
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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