MS Word: Remove watermark from all Word pages using VBA

You can create watermark in MS Word document by going to Format Menu > Background > Printed Watermarks… Here you will be able to set Text Watermark in each page. Now if you want to remove the watermark from all pages, use the following VBA script.

   Dim section As Word.section
   Dim pheadertype As Long
   Dim hdr As Range
   Dim sp As Shape
   Dim str As String
   For Each section In ActiveDocument.Sections
      With section
         Set hdr = .Headers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Range
         For Each sp In hdr.ShapeRange
            str = sp.Name
            If InStr(str, "PowerPlusWaterMarkObject") > 0 Then
               sp.Visible = msoFalse
             End If
          Next
          Set hdr = .Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range
          For Each sp In hdr.ShapeRange
             str = sp.Name
             If InStr(str, "PowerPlusWaterMarkObject") > 0 Then
                 sp.Visible = msoFalse
             End If
           Next
       End With
    Next

Vishal Monpara

Vishal Monpara is a full stack Solution Developer/Architect with 12 years of experience primarily using Microsoft stack. He is currently working in Retail industry and moving 1’s and 0’s from geographically dispersed hard disks to geographically dispersed user’s mind leveraging geographically dispersed team members.