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.
- First, open a blank document on Google Docs
- Once you open the document, go to the toolbar ⇨ and select the Insert ⇨ Drawing ⇨ New
- On the drawing box, you can add a transparent text or a transparent PNG image.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Once you have created the Watermark click Save and Close button.
- 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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