How to Add a Watermark to a PowerPoint Presentation
November 10, 2015 / / Comments Off on How to Add a Watermark to a PowerPoint Presentation
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Some of the most confidential data is presented in a PowerPoint deck and one method to imply that there is confidential data is to add a watermark to the slides. Oftentimes, we need reminders that a document is “Internal Only,” a “Draft,” or “Not for Distribution,” and adding a watermark is a helpful alert your audience.
Watch the video above or follow these steps below.
First, we will begin by adjusting the slide master:
- Click the View tab.
- Select Slide master.
- Select the top slide.
- Go to the Insert tab.
- Add a text box in middle of the slide.
- Type in text you want to be watermarked.
- Resize, rotate, and adjust the text as you see fit.
- Now to make the text look faded and more like a watermark, select the Format tab.
- Click the pop out menu for Format Shape. A menu will appear on the right.
- Click the Text options icon in the format shape menu.
- Under Text Fill and Outline, you can adjust the transparency of the text here.
- Adjust the text transparency as you see fit.
- Close the master view in the top menu bar.
- Now, the watermark should be visible on text heavy slides.
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