Word Help needed - anyway to set a background image to not print???

[valve90210]

Basically exactly as per the thread title.

I am trying to find an easy way to have a backgrond image inserted into a word document (in the header) and have it display on screen but not print out, does anyone know if this is possible?

I've tried googling and not found anything conclusive or simple enough for the people that would need to be doing it here at work!!

We use word 2003 and 2007 if that makes any difference.

The reason I want to find a way is so one office can set letters in a wordfile that has the letter head in the background, they can then create a pdf of this with te background included.

Then when they come to print to the photocopier they can print to the headed paper we have without the heading template printing...

 

[valve90210]

How about just setting the document margins so that they can't write over the header?

That's not the problem, the problem is that I want the header to appear on pdfs they create but when they come to print it for mailing out, they will be printing onto pre-printed headed paper so I don't want the background image of the headed paper printing onto the already printed headed paper.

 

[valve90210]

I did give that a whirl but I couldn't get the image to display correctly when set as the background, it was much too large and I couldn't find a way to get it to fit the page? This was despit the image being A4 sized....

maybe I needed to change the resolution???