How to Add a Watermark in Google Documents – Guide

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How to Create a Google Docs Watermark

To protect a document with your logo or mark it as confidential, copyrighted, or other protected information, use a watermark in Google Docs. The watermark can be any image or text you like.

Make an image watermark

There’s no built-in watermarking utility for Docs, but you can create one with Google Drawings. Google Designs lets you create a watermark background with your text on top or a watermark over the text. Using it in Docs is as easy as importing the drawing.

To insert an image into your post, go to Insert > Image. You can then select where you want to get the image from. ..

You can resize it by using the corner boxes or the circle button. ..

Format Options lets you change the way text looks on your screen.

In the Adjustments section, increase the Transparency to whatever works for you. The idea here is to make it light enough that the document is visible when it goes up, but dark enough that it still serves as a watermark.

Now that you have your watermark, you need to name it. This will be important later on when you are creating your security measures. ..

How to Use a Watermark on Google Docs To use a watermark on a Google Docs document, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Google Docs app and sign in.
  2. Click the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen and select “Create watermark.”
  3. Type your desired text into the “Watermark Text” field and click the “Create Watermark” button.
  4. The watermark will be created and will be located in the “Documents” folder under your account name.

Make a text watermark

To make a text watermark in Google Docs, you can use the following steps:

  1. Open Google Docs and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen.
  2. On the right, you will see a list of tools. Choose one of these tools and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen again.
  3. Type ‘W’ into the text field and press ENTER.

Type the following text into the text box and press Enter: To insert a hyperlink, click on the Insert > Hyperlink button. ..

Watermark your content with a simple click and drag.

Please enter the text you want to watermark. You can make it bigger or smaller, change the font type, rotate it, etc. ..

To change the text color, choose the text color option from the menu. ..

Select a watermark design to use for your document. ..

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How to Use a watermark with Google Docs

Google Docs doesn’t let you write under or over the watermark, so you have to copy all the text in a document into Google Drawings.

Copy the text of the Google document that you want to watermark. There is a Select All and Copy option in the Edit menu to make this easier.

In the text box, type in your message.

To create a text box, start by clicking and dragging from the top left corner of the document to the bottom right corner. ..

To paste content from Google Docs into your document, go to Edit > Paste. ..

To make a watermark background, right-click on the text or watermark and choose Order to choose how to layer them. For example, if your watermark is dark and you want it to hide some of the text, edit the text box layer to Send to Back.

To draw a line from the bottom of your drive to the top, use From Drive.

Select the watermark you just created and choose Edit. ..

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The watermarked drawing will be added to the document. If you imported the source link, you can find it in the upper right corner; selecting it opens it in Google Drawings. ..

Final note

Adding a watermark to Google Docs can help you protect your work and make it easier to find when you need it. ..