Thanks for the Word tip -- I can't make that work. --even looked up "watermark" and "images" in Word for Dummies and it doesn't have it there.

Yeah, I'm trying to make a photo into a faint backgroud so I can put copy over it. As I said, I've done it by accident in the past (can't remember what program I used) so I know my computer can do it.

I'm assuming it was a program that I've since uninstalled, thinking that surely photoshop 7 could do anything it could.