Word – How to add a full background to an A4-sized Word document

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I'm trying to add a background to an A4-sized Word document.

What is the correct background image size (in terms of resolution) to put into an A4 document? I tried Watermark, Fill effects, and tried to put the image into the header as well.

The image doesn't fit correctly – it will be centered and I need to scale it without causing a quality drop.

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I have had to this a couple of times for a background you don't want noobs messing with.

795 x 1123 jpg worked for me on A4 in word. When using Fill ->picture function.

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What you possibly want is in effect a watermark.

Go to View Header & Footer and insert it there

or other methods for Word 2007, Word 2002 & 2003 or Word 2000 (you don't mention which version you are using)

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You could try to experiment with conditional text in the header based on a document property like the category. If you enter "PDF" in the category the header will be printed, if you erase it the header disappeares.

Try this simple example:

{IF {DOCPROPERTY Category}="PDF" "This is the header text..." ""}

I am not sure how to extract the printer name being used during the printing phase, but at least this could simplify things.

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