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Letterhead Different First/Second Page and Margins
This has been a problem for several years now and I would
appreciate any suggestions the community might have. We have been using text boxes to "adjust" margins on the first page to fit our preprinted letterhead which is used only on the first page. This is beginning to become extremely annoying because many times what is displayed on the screen is not what is printed on the printer. Using text boxes also causes problems with margins in that it deems them completely useless. Any changes in margins using the tabs on the ruler either have no effect (as in the case of the right margins) or are decieving (the left margin tab does not change text to where it is placed, it is relative to the text box). Does anyone know if there is already a solution or if Microsoft has any wish of fixing this in the future and providing the extremely useful feature of having differing first page formatting from the rest of the document without having to constantly place section breaks and/or text boxes to "rig" it. Thank You, Justin |
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Letterhead Different First/Second Page and Margins
So far as I know, the solution you are using is the only one out there. Here
is my blurb on preparing letterhead templates. It may give you some new ideas but the links won't tell you any different. Take a look at: How to set up letterhead or some other document where you want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages. http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step instructions. (It also has the following links) Some other pages to look at: Letterhead Tips and Instructions http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial http://addbalance.com/word/download/...StylesTutorial 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...platePart2.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). If you are interested in creating templates that will work with the letter wizard or use that wizard, you should look at the chapter on Advanced Document Formatting in Using Office 2003 (or whatever your version is), Special Edition, by Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard. It has detailed instructions including instructions on getting the fields you want from your Outlook Contacts for addressing a letter. (Chapter 19 of SE Using Office 2003) You should be able to get this through your public library or at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...ncecheckbookA/ Hope this helps, -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Justin Bachus" wrote in message ... This has been a problem for several years now and I would appreciate any suggestions the community might have. We have been using text boxes to "adjust" margins on the first page to fit our preprinted letterhead which is used only on the first page. This is beginning to become extremely annoying because many times what is displayed on the screen is not what is printed on the printer. Using text boxes also causes problems with margins in that it deems them completely useless. Any changes in margins using the tabs on the ruler either have no effect (as in the case of the right margins) or are decieving (the left margin tab does not change text to where it is placed, it is relative to the text box). Does anyone know if there is already a solution or if Microsoft has any wish of fixing this in the future and providing the extremely useful feature of having differing first page formatting from the rest of the document without having to constantly place section breaks and/or text boxes to "rig" it. Thank You, Justin |
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