A. In Word, click on Format—Background—Printed Watermark. In the Printed Watermark window are three radio button choices : No watermark, Picture watermark, and Text watermark. Clicking on the radio button for Picture watermark makes available the Select Picture button that allows you to browse and locate the graphic or photo you want to use. Scaling choices for size include : Auto, 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, and 500%. Clicking to put a check mark in the check box beside Washout makes the picture appear very light in the background. Click Apply to see what the watermark looks like and change it as you wish. As long as you click Apply, you’ll stay in the window. Click OK when you’re finished.

Clicking on the radio button for Text Watermark lets you select or enter the text you want, the font style, size, color, whether you want it to be semitransparent, and whether you want the text to be diagonal or horizontal. Click Apply to try, and OK to finish.

Backgrounds can be displayed in MS Excel.

Click on Format—Sheet—Background and browse for the picture that will then be tiled on the workbook page and select Insert. To remove the background, select Format—Sheet—Delete Background.

In OpenOffice Write, click on Format—Page—Background tab. Either a color or a graphic can be selected. Click on the Browse button and locate the desired graphic, then choose how you want it to appear. Three types are offered. Position gives nine locations for the graphic to appear, Area fills the page with one picture, and Tile fills the page with small graphics. A check mark put in the Preview box shows what the graphic looks like, but doesn’t show you the different styles. To remove a picture, select Color and click on No Fill.

In OpenOffice Calc, backgrounds can be graphics as well as colors, but it’s a little more complicated. Select Insert—Picture—From File. Browse to get the picture, select it, and click Open. Resize the picture as you wish by dragging the handles, then click on Format—Arrange—To background. I couldn’t find a way to change or remove the background.

The only way I found to make washout backgrounds for Excel, Write, or Calc is to make the color adjustments in Photoshop Elements or another graphics editor before bringing in the picture.

There are down arrows but no choices for Capacity, File System, and Allocation unit size. Volume label is for giving the disk a name if you want.

Format: If both Quick Format and Create an MS-DOS startup disk are left unchecked, this wipes out original data if any is present, defines the tracks and sectors, and creates necessary files and tables. This is the format to use if you want to completely delete all the original data and start clean.

Quick Format: This will supposedly format a 3.5 inch, 1.44MB diskette with a File Allocation Table (FAT) file system using a Quick Format that can be used only on a disk that has been previously formatted. In a quick format, the directory files are cleared, thereby eliminating the accessing of previous files. As new files are saved and listed in the directory, the old data is overwritten.

Create an MS-DOS startup disk: When I selected this option, it appears to provide a disk that will boot the computer with a display, a keyboard, and an A: prompt.