How to Create and Insert a Watermark in Google Docs

Adding a watermark to your media files is a good way to protect your pictures from unauthorized usage without your permission. We already know how to add a watermark to images using Adobe Photoshop and other online image tools. However, there is no core feature to add a watermark to document files, such as Word, Excel, or PDF files. But there is a way to insert a Watermark using Google Docs

Regrettably, Google Docs doesn’t yet have an inbuilt feature to do so. However, there’s a way to use it as an alternative. Inside this manual, you’ll find a simple trick to easily insert a Watermark into Google Docs. Let’s start the article.

How to Create a Watermark in Google Docs

Google Docs does not have a built-in feature to add a watermark to your Docs. In this case, you’ll need to create a background image with the watermark text and then place a translucent layer above it. Follow the guide below to learn it in detail.

1. First, open a blank document on Google Docs

   

2. Once you open the document, go to the toolbar ⇨ and select the Insert ⇨ Drawing ⇨ New

   

3. On the drawing box, you can add a transparent text or a transparent PNG image.
4. For adding text select small “T” box and move your mouse cursor to the Drawing box and click on the middle, type your brand name in the text box.
5. To customize the text, re-sizing and set colour press more button, I selected the grey colour for the text which has a much lighter.

   

6. You can also rotate the text box To do it, all you need to click and drag the rotation handle that is available at the top of the text box.

   

7. Once you have created the Watermark click Save and Close button.

   

8. Download the png file by going to ⇨ Action ⇨ Download png image and save it to your computer.

   

Add a Watermark

To insert the watermark in an old doc or newly created doc file, just open the doc file, go to the Insert tab ⇨ Headers & footers, then add the PNG watermark image file in the footer.

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