For this post, we will explore how you can remove a watermark from a Word document using Encodian’s Flowr. The solution uses two of Flowr’s actions:
The scenario for this example is that the sales team uploads Word working (draft) documents to a SharePoint folder containing a ‘Draft’ watermark. Once a document is complete, its status is changed to ‘Completed’ in a SharePoint column, which triggers a Power Automate flow that removes the ‘Draft’ watermark, converts the document to PDF, and saves it back to SharePoint.
The SharePoint document library is simple, with only one extra choice metadata column added called ‘Document Status’. The choice values of this column are:
Each draft document contains a draft watermark (Standard Microsoft Word feature). This is the Sales Proposal document when opened in the Word app:
The Power Automate flow is a cloud flow triggered by the ‘When a file is created or modified (properties only)‘ trigger action.
We only want the flow to run when the ‘Document Status’ column has changed to ‘Completed’, so we need to add a trigger condition to the trigger action. To add a trigger condition:
The trigger condition I am using is:
@equals(triggerBody()?['DocumentStatus/Value'],'Completed')
If you require guidance to create trigger conditions (the easy way ), please refer to Create Power Automate Trigger Conditions Simplified
Next, we need to get the file content using SharePoint’s ‘Get file content using path‘ action.
Once we have the file content, we can use Flowr’s ‘Remove Watermark from Word‘ action. Make sure the filename you provide has the file extension!
Once the watermark has been removed, we can then convert the document to PDF using Flowr’s ‘Convert to PDF‘ action before saving the PDF file to SharePoint.
Let’s mark the document as ‘Completed‘ to trigger the flow!
As we can see from the image, the watermark has been removed from the final PDF document.
Check out Sophie’s companion video on YouTube!
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