There are a variety of reasons why you may want to remove a watermark from a Word document. Perhaps you need to give someone a draft copy of a document that contains a watermark or shell corporation logos or other sensitive information that you want removed. Or maybe the document has been copied and pasted as part of an illicit activity and you need to remove all traces of ownership. It could also be that you simply wish to remove the text from the file because it is not pertinent or does not reflect your final thoughts on the matter.
Whatever your reason for wanting a watermark removed from a Word document, the process is simple if you know where to look.
Remove a Watermark from Word Document
Now that you have learnt how to insert watermark in Word document, it is also necessary for you to learn how to remove watermark from Word 2010 document. Here are the instructions:
Step 1. Open the Word document whose watermark needs to be removed.
Step 2. Click Page Layout>Watermark, and then you will find the option of Remove Watermark at the bottom.
Step 3. Click Remove Watermark. This will help you delete the existed watermark from the Word document.
As you can see, steps to add and remove watermark in Microsoft Word are very easy. Now just get started and follow the steps above to learn how to insert and remove watermark in Word 2010.
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Method #1: Remove Watermark using Design Tab
To remove water mark from the entire section of Word document follow these steps
1. Go to Design Tab > Watermark (In Word 2010 or 2007, select Page Layout > Watermark.).
2. In Windows: Click on “Remove Watermark” from the drop-down to get rid of watermark. For MacOs: In the Insert Watermark Window, select No watermark.
Method #2: Manually deleting watermark text or image
Sometimes the above method doesn’t work. In that case, you need to manually delete watermark using the following steps:
- Navigate to header area by double clicking the header area. Alternatively, you can also go to Insert Tab > Header and click on “Edit header“.
- Once you in the header, you can select watermark by clicking over it. In some case, you need to double click watermark to select it.
- Using a pointer, select the entire watermark text by clicking on its bounding text box or in case of image click on the image to select it.
- Press Delete key to remove watermark.
Following animation shows all the above steps
Method 1: Remove the watermark using the Watermark feature
First and foremost, you can use the same Watermark feature of Word that was used to add the watermark to the document to remove it. In order to remove a watermark from a Word document using this method, you need to:
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- Open the document you want to remove the watermark from in Word.
- If you’re using Word 2007 or Word 2010, navigate to the Page Layout tab in Word’s toolbar. If you’re using Word 2013 or Word 2016, on the other hand, navigate to the Design tab in Word’s toolbar.
- In the Page Background section of the Design or Page Layout tab, click on Watermark.
- In the resulting menu, click on Remove Watermark.
As soon as you do so, any watermark that was added to the document using Word’s Watermark functionality will be immediately removed. In addition, this change will be applied to every single page of the document, meaning that the watermark will be removed from the entire document regardless of how many pages it contains.
Method 2: Remove the watermark from the document’s header
Alternatively, a watermark can also be removed from a Word document from the document’s header. You see, Word anchors any watermarks added to a document in that document’s header area, which is why you can remove a watermark that was added to a section of a document by accessing it in the header area. In order to do so, you need to:
- Open the document you want to remove the watermark from in Word.
- Double-click on the header area of the document to access it.
- Once you have access to the header area of the document and everything it contains, click on the watermark to select it.
- Press Delete, and the selected watermark will be deleted from the entire section of the document.
Note: Deleting a watermark or removing it will remove it from every page in that specific section of the respective Word document. If the Word document contains multiple sections, however, you are going to have to remove the watermark from each section by repeating the steps for every single section.
How to Remove Watermark from Photo
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Now for those of you who have problems with the presence of watermarks, Tripboba will provide a way to remove watermarks using an Android smartphone. How to remove watermark from the photo, we need help from an application called Photo Director. For that, make sure that the application has been installed on your smartphone. Next, follow the steps below:
- Step 1. Open the Photo Director application.
- Step 2. Select the Edit menu and give the application permission to access files on the smartphone.
- Step 3. Select the photo you want to remove the watermark from. After the photo is inserted select the Removal option.
- Step 4. Mark the watermark that you want to remove. Then select the Apply option.
- Step 5. The watermark will automatically disappear.
That’s the easy way how to remove watermark using Android. Watermark itself is a sign that is used to mark the copyright of the photo owner or it can also be used to prevent copyright claims from other parties.
Removing watermarks is not allowed because watermarks are the identity of the photo owner. But if you feel you need to remove the watermark from the photo, it’s a good idea to ask the main owner’s permission first.
How to Remove Watermark in Word Files
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If you’re having your documents on Microsoft Office Word, you can do it easily. The simple steps you can use as below.
- Step 1. Open Microsoft Office Word.
- Step 2. Choose Design > Watermark. (In Word 2010 or 2007, choose Page Layout> Watermark.)
- Step 3. Select Remove Watermark. Done!
If you can’t remove a watermark using Erase Watermark, try these methods:
- Step 1. Double click near the top of the page to open the header area.
- Step 2. Hover over the watermark until you see a 4-way arrow.
- Step 3. Select a watermark.
- Step 4. Press the Delete button on the keyboard.
- Step 5. Repeat as needed to remove all watermarks.
How to Remove Watermark from PDF Files
How to remove watermark from PDF document directly without converting it to Word? Well, what you need is a professional PDF editor. Here we recommend you to use Adobe Acrobat Pro and ApowerPDF.
Adobe Acrobat Pro is probably the most well-known PDF software. With many PDF editing tools in it, Adobe Acrobat Pro allows users to add, edit, or remove watermarks on PDFs. Try these steps of how to remove watermark from the PDF below.
- Step 1. Open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro after installing it on your device.
- Step 2. Go to the “Tools” tab above and select “Edit PDF.”
- Step 3. On the editing toolbar, click “Watermark” then select “Remove” from the drop-down list.
- Step 4. A prompt will appear asking “Are you sure you want to remove the watermark permanently,” click “OK” and all watermarks on this PDF will be removed.
There it is. In four simple steps, you’ve finished how to remove watermark from PDF. If you are also interested in removing watermarks from some PDFs, you can refer to this page: Remove Watermarks in Adobe.
How to Remove Watermark Photoshop Easily
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Some of the tips on how to remove watermark below may be useful for those of you who want to remove watermarks. This tutorial uses Adobe Photoshop software with two techniques that you can use.
- Step 1. Prepare an image with your watermark on it.
- Step 2. Activate the Spot Healing Brush on the tool bar.
- Step 3. Use a small brush. To increase and decrease the size of the brush, you can press the [or] sign on your keyboard. Mark [to zoom out and mark] to increase the brush size.
- Step 4. Brush the spot healing brush tool on the watermark.
The method above is suitable for watermarks in the form of lines or icons. However, this method will certainly take a long time and we have to be careful to brush the spot healing brush onto the watermark.
- Step 1. For areas that have the same color as the image below, you can use the second method which is more practical and quick.
- Step 2. Activate the lasso tool on the toolbar or you can just press the letter L on your keyboard.
- Step 3. Create a selection area around the watermark that will be removed.
- Step 4. Right click then select Fill, or you can go to the Edit menu then select Fill.
- Step 5. The Fill dialog box will appear as shown below. In the Content drop down section, select Content Aware. After that click OK.
- Step 6. This second method is quick and easy, but it won’t work for areas with different colors or textures. You’re done!
Those are some useful tips of how to remove watermark on Microsoft Office Word documents, PDF files, and image on Adobe Photoshop. Good luck!
Conclusion
You want to remove a watermark from a Word document, but you can’t. The text box has a transparency effect that masks the watermark and prevents you from deleting it. It won’t even let you highlight or copy/paste text from it. You need to find another way. Try out this method!