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#Remove watermark in word for mac 2016 driver

I wonder if it’s a printer setting? The reason I ask is that in Acrobat Professional (which is effectively a printer driver for producing PDFs), you can set a watermark independently of Word. You say you only see this on ONE printer and that you’ve only had that printer for a month. I suspect Word 2004 for Mac is based on Word 2003 for Windows, which did not have XML options. Yes, this is PC-based, and Word 2007/2010 instructions. Open the DOCX document-the watermark should be gone.Save the document as a DOCX file using File > Save As.You can easily remove or delete hard returns or paragraph marks in Microsoft Word. However, the document is still an XML file. Applies to: Microsoft Word 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows). Find the XML document in your folder and open it using Word (NOT a text editor).Save the XML document, then close the text editor.You’ll end up with string=”” once you’ve deleted the watermark word(s). Delete the watermark word(s) inside the quote marks.For example: string=”draft” or string=”confidential”. Search (Ctrl+F in most cases) for your watermark word(s) surrounded by double quote marks and prefaced by string=.Place your cursor at the beginning of the file.

Open the XML document you created in Step 2.

You’ll now have two docs listed in your folder-one with a DOCX file extension, and one with an XML extension.

Save the document as an XML document: File > Save As and choose XML Document from the list of file types.

(Always work on a copy to test something you’ve never tried before or aren’t confident doing.)

#Remove watermark in word for mac 2016 update

Update March 2019: See below for the steps for saving as XML and deleting it that way. NOTE: Make a copy of your document and work on the copy. Update February 2013: If the watermark still won’t delete, trying saving the document as XML - see Amy’s instructions in the Comments (), and the following update immediately below.

Repeat for all other sections that have a stubborn watermark that you can’t remove.

Press the Delete key to remove the watermark.

Click to select the watermark (you’ll see colored selection handles around the watermark text when it’s selected).

Move your cursor over some of the letters in the watermark until it turns into a 4-way arrow.

Double-click inside the section’s header to open it.

Watermarks have always been stored as part of the header in Word, so: Word 2007 document with a stubborn ‘DRAFT’ watermark that won’t budge, despite going to the section and trying to remove it the usual way ( Page Layout tab > Watermark > Remove Watermark). Here’s one I solved for a work colleague… Problem