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How to place watermarks vertically in Word documents

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-08-23

By default, watermark can only be inserted diagonally or horizontally into document as below screenshot shown. If you want to make watermarks vertical in your document, there is no direct method to solve the problem. Here, I introduce a little trick for you to achieve it manually.

Watermarks of different directions

Place watermarks vertically manually

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Place watermarks vertically manually

This section will show you a little trick to place watermarks vertically manually. Please do as follows.

1. Open the Word document contains watermark you will change to vertical layout.

2. Double click the page header section to get into the header edit mode.

3. Click the watermark to select it, put your cursor on the green dot until a rotating sign appears.

Green dot that appears when select the watermark

4. Rotate the watermark to vertical layout as below screenshot:

Rotated watermark

5. Click the Close Header and Footer button under the Header & Footer Tools tab.

Close Header and Footer button on the ribbon

Then you can see the existing watermarks in current document are change to vertical layout as below screenshot shown.

Existing watermarks are now vertical

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