Hi Charles,

This sounds like it might fit our situation. I want to
avoid creating 40 individual templates because it means I
have to update all 40 templates every time our letterhead
changes instead of just one template. But if the
customized templates incorporate a base templates which
contains the "variable" or changeable information, that
might do it.

Thanks,


-----Original Message-----
I suspect you are better off with customized templates
than with macros.
Those templates can call in or incorporate aspects of a
base template as
they are used to create new documents. This can be done
using macros or
AutoText (or both). By properly using styles and styleref
fields in your
headers you can also make the continuation pages headers
much more specific
to your letters.

Take a look at:

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download/...m#LetterheadTe
xtboxesAndStylesTutorial

Template Basics
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...CreateATemplat
ePart2.htm

Word "Forms"

http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordw...rces.htm#Forms
and

Word for Word Perfect Users
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm if you
are coming from a WP
environment (or even if you are not).

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented
version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is
awesome!
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Hi Jay,

I have in fact created a template with a macro that
allows
secretaries to select an attorney - that attorney's
information is then placed into an empty cell designated
for that purpose, and the letterhead is created.

In the template, I have the first page letterhead in the
header, a logo in the first page footer, and a second
page
header with "Page 2", etc.

To access the template, secretaries have to go to File -
New - Letterhead tab - Letterhead Template - then select
the attorney's name and click "OK". Instead of going
through all these steps, they want a button on their
toolbar that they can click once and have their
personalized letterhead created. I have been all over
the
block with this issue, including creating a new macro
for
creating toolbar buttons. After all this, I settled on
using an AutoText entry with a button on the toolbar
instead. But now I've run into this other problem - I
can't store both headers and the footer inside the
AutoText entry.

So that is the history of this particular AutoText
entry.
Any ideas???

Thanks,
Rosemary



-----Original Message-----
Hi, Rosemary,

Ah, unfortunately that's not possible. You can open the
Header pane, select
the text of the header (only), and make that into an
AutoText entry. You can
select the body of the document and make that into
another entry. You can't
put everything into one entry, though.

However, I don't quite understand where you're going
with
this. Since you're
creating a letter template, why not simply leave the
letterhead as the
(first-page) header, and with the "boilerplate" text
already in the body?
For guidance, see
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Rosemayr wrote:
Thanks, Jay. I did a CTRL + A to select the entire
document, but AutoText did not include the headers
and
footers in the entry. How do I select an entire
document,
including its headers and footers, and make it into
an
AutoText entry?

Thanks,


-----Original Message-----
Certainly you can! In fact, if the text that you
store
is formatted
with the Header style or the Footer style, its name
will appear in
the dropdown list of the AutoText Entries button in
the
Header/Footer toolbar.

For more on AutoText, see

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoText.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org

Rosemary wrote:
Hi,

Can you store headers and footers in an AutoText
entry? I
have a letterhead template that I want to partially
fill
in and store as Auto-Text. The letterhead is
inside
the
header and footer, and I want that to be a part of
the
AutoText entry.

Thanks,


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