Re: Margins & Headers
From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 01/19/05
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:29:16 -0600
Thank you. You are right; it isn't needed to change the top and bottom
margins, only left and right.
-- 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message news:e7AuEea$EHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... >A text box is really not necessary and just adds to document complexity. > Space Before/After is all that is required (whether you have a letterhead > in > the header or just an empty paragraph). > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup > so > all may benefit. > > "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in > message news:epTF2MZ$EHA.2192@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... >> Use a Textbox in your first page header to mimic having different >> margins. >> See Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial >> > http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial >> >> You may also want to 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.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm >> >> Template Basics >> http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm >> >> How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading >> http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm >> >> Word "Forms" >> http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.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/ISBN=0789729555/balancecheckbookA/ >> >> Finally, take a look at the letter templates that come with Word. While > they >> are no great shakes as letterhead, they do use styles and AutoText lists >> very well. If you use the same style names that are used in those > templates >> in your own letterhead for the same parts of the document, you will have >> better luck with using the built-in AutoText entries in Word. >> >> 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. >> >> >> "Sherry" <sakins@floydobe.net> wrote in message >> news:155a01c4fd8f$761f7420$a501280a@phx.gbl... >> > Ok, here goes again. I have a one-page document that has >> > a header. If the page extends into a 2nd or 3rd page, I >> > do not want a header on subsequent pages. The 1st page >> > top margin needs to be set at 2.25, while subsequent >> > pages (if they appear) need a top margin of 1.25. It >> > seems I can solve these two problems, but not at the same >> > time. I can elect for a different first page header by >> > going to Page Setup-->Layout-->Different First Page >> > Header. That does not solve the problem of a different >> > top margin. That I tried to solve by putting in a section >> > break immediately after the header on the first page. >> > That will work to a degree in that I can then make the >> > 2nd and subsequent pages have a different top margin. >> > However, placement of the section break means that when a >> > user opens the document and begins to type, the insertion >> > point comes BEFORE the hidden section break, thereby >> > moving the section break down the page as typing >> > commences, and therefore formatting the 2nd page same as >> > the first. >> > >> > I have been told many numerous remedies, mostly to either >> > insert a paragraph on the first page for the extra space, >> > or to use a text box. Neither case is sufficient for what >> > my users need. They need for the insertion point to be at >> > the EXACT location that they need to begin typing without >> > changing any of the formatting. Surely as powerful an >> > application as Word is, there must be a way to handle >> > something this simple. >> > >> > This document is actually a letterhead that I have >> > created with my logo, etc within the Header of the first >> > page. If I do not place the logo in the Header and place >> > it in the document as an object instead, the insertion >> > point comes before the object, making everything move >> > down. My users are not computer literate and would not >> > know how to change a header, or how to move their >> > insertion point. >> > >> > The biggest test comes from a user who is several steps >> > above me on the chain of command, so I must satisfy his >> > desires on this letterhead at all costs..lol....He >> > creates his document as a plain document, then cuts and >> > pastes it onto the letterhead. I know this is crazy and >> > useless, but try to tell him that. Anyway, with the logo >> > as an object, the cut and paste moves the object down the >> > page and the text he pastes sort of goes into the middle >> > of the object. >> > >> > Other users simply open the template and begin typing but >> > again, the insertion point moves the section break. >> > >> > Help!!! Pulling my hair out over this one! Please feel >> > free to email me if you can offer any further suggestions! >> >> >
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