How to Create and Insert a Watermark Using Google Docs Drawing

Step 1: Open Google Docs in your browser and open the document

Open Google Docs in the browser on your desktop or laptop. Open the document to which the watermark has to be inserted.

Step 2: Go to the Insert tab, Select Drawing, and Choose New

In the menu bar of Google Docs, click ‘Insert’. A dropdown opens, click ‘Drawing’ in it. Another sub dropdown opens. Click ‘New’ on it.

Step 3: Go to the Shapes Icon, Select Shapes, and Choose the Shape you desire

The drawing window pops up. Can add shapes and text to this drawing window. Click the ‘Shape’ icon in the toolbar of the drawing window to insert a shape into the drawing. A drop-down appears. Click ‘Shapes’ in it. Another sub-drop-down opens with many shapes. Click on any shape you want to add to the drawing. Here we are choosing an ‘oval’ shape to insert in the drawing.

Step 4: Draw an Oval in the Drawing

After drawing the oval, the oval shape gets added to the drawing.

Step 5: Click on the Text box (T) Icon

In the toolbar of the drawing window, click the text box icon with the letter ‘T’ to insert text in the drawing.

Step 6: Draw a text box on the Shape and Type the Text you want

Draw a text box on the oval shape, and type the text to add on the oval shape.

Here we have typed ‘VERIFIED’.

Step 7: Highlight the text in the textbox and Click on the three vertical dots

To make formatting on the text in the text box, highlight the text in the text box and click the three vertical dots in the toolbar. A new set of toolbars appears below the default toolbar with options for formatting the text.

Step 8: Increase Text Size with the Plus Symbol

To increase the size of the text in the text box, click on the plus sign till the size you want to set.

Here we have increased the text size to 29. The size of the text has increased.

Step 9: Change Text Color Using the Toolbar

To change the color of the text, click the ‘Text color’ icon. A list of colors appears as a dropdown. Choose any color among them.

Here we have selected the green color, and the color of the text in the text box has changed.

Step 10: (Optional) Change the Angle of shape

To change the angle of the shape and text box to make it look like a watermark, click on the shape or text, click the dot appearing on top of it, and drag it to a slanting angle.

The angle of the shape and text box has changed.

Step 11: Click the ‘Save and close’ button in the drawing window

After making all the changes you want, click the ‘Save and close’ button at the top rightmost corner of the drawing window.

The drawing gets added to the document now.

Step 12: Click on the image and select ‘Behind the text’ from the below options

Click on the image in the document, and click the icon ‘Behind the text’ to move the image to the back of the page content.

The image moved back of the page content now.

Step 13: Resize and Center Image

Change the size of the image by dragging the corner points of the image, and move the image to the center of the page by dragging it.

Step 14: Preview Document

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