Is it possible to put a watermark on second copy

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I and printing documents where I want to print 2 copies one with and one w/o
a watermark showing second is a copy.
 
This seems close to what I want to do. But basically I have a mail merged
document where I select the recipiants and then scroll thru and print to
copies and an envelope and go on to the next one. I would appear I would
have to take watermark on and off the document each time and would be easier
just to have to copies w/i the one document which has posed a whole new set
of problems. I have check boxes w/i it and I thought I had it licked by
coding coordinating check boxes to automatically check in the second copy but
when I opened the document today my check boxes had all new names assigned to
them causing an error.

Thanks anyway I figured if there was and easy way to watermark a second
printing I would just do that.
 
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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