How to Create a Google Docs Watermark
Using a watermark in Google Docs lets you protect a document with your logo or mark something as a draft, confidential, copyrighted, etc. The watermark can be any image or text you want.
Make an Image Watermark
There isn’t a watermarking utility built-in to Docs, but you can make one with Google Drawings. This tool lets you create a watermark background with your text on top or a watermark that sits over the text. Using it in Docs is as easy as importing the drawing.
Make a Text Watermark
Sometimes, all you really need is a text watermark, a word or phrase that shows lightly over the document. For example, you might want to use the word ‘Draft’ on a draft document so that you know what version you’re using. Here’s how to make a text watermark in Google Docs.
How to Use a Watermark With Google Docs
As handy as it’d be to import the watermark into Google Docs so that you can write under or over it normally, you can’t do it like that. Instead, you’re forced to copy all of the document’s text into Google Drawings. To do that, right-click the watermark or the text you pasted, and then choose Order to pick how to layer them. For example, if your watermark is dark and you want it to hide some of the text, edit the text box’s layer to be Send to back.
