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Old March 9th, 2010, 09:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
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Default Using a Publisher Template in Word - or equivalent ?

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I've got my company letterhead created in Publisher and it is
printed it off to create a set of company-headed notepaper.

When I come to write a letter I enter the text into Word using a word
template for the correct margins, etc and then print onto the
pre-printed letterhead.

Increasingly I want to be able to create the same letter on the
company letterhead but print to pdf so I can send the letter as a
file attach.

It seems a chore to do it all in Publisher and I don't seem to have
an option to create a Word template from Publisher

Can anyone tell me the best way to achieve it.

Current version of office is 07 but I also have 2010 beta

Thanks in advance


Rob


In addition to the link that Mary posted, you can do a Save As your
Publisher file as a .png file type. Once that is done start Word,
Insert Header, insert the picture (.png) file. Resize the picture to
fit. Close the header box and then save as a .dotx file (Document
Template.) When you need to create the file to send (or even print
on non-letterhead paper with the color printer) then simply open the
template file. I use this method all the time. Generally it is
cheaper than commercial printing of letterhead paper and it also
prevents issues with toner migration when printing through a laser
printers the second time.


I think you can also put your picture in as a watermark using that
technique, if you should want to.
But don't quote me on that it's more years ago than I want to remember
when I did such things!

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