Re: Creating a Letterhead Template

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You've made a good start. You need to put the top part in First Page Header
(inline) and the bottom part in the First Page Footer (inline). The part
that goes at the side should be anchored to the First Page Header and given
Square wrapping. As detailed in
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm, leave your top and bottom
margins at 1" or 1.5" (whatever you normally use); just add some Space After
to the header paragraph and Space Before to the footer paragraph (as needed)
to create the needed space between them and the first page of your letter;
the remaining pages (which will have the continuation Header and Footer)
will have the normal margins.

Another issue that can come up is the header/footer margin and side margins.
I'm guessing that the graphic you're using goes all the way to the edge of
the page (I saw such an example recently, so it's fresh in my mind's eye).
There are three ways to handle this:

1. You can set header and footer margins to 0" so that the graphics will
extend to the top and bottom of the page. You then add negative indents
(left and right) to the header and footer paragraphs in order to allow the
sides of the graphic to extend to the side margins. If you choose this
route, you should probably define separate First Page Header and First Page
Footer styles (with the required negative indents), and you'll need to add
Space Before to the Header style and Space After to the Footer style to
place them correctly.

2. You can wrap the header and footer graphics. If they're just anchored to
the First Page Header/Footer paragraphs, they can be anywhere, without
regard to the margins. This is not a terrible solution, but it's a little
less stable, and you'll still need to add Space After/Before to those
paragraphs, which may be hiding behind the graphics (possibly not if you use
Square wrapping).

3. You can trim the graphics. This is much the best approach. Assuming that
margins are built into the letterhead design, trim off the white space
around the top and sides until it will fit within reasonable margins (at
least the header margin; you can still use negative indents if necessary).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Joe McGuire" <mcguirejw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I already have a nice template for creating letters in Word 2002/2003 and
printing them on our firm's pre-printed letterhead. I would like to
figure
out if there is a way to get that pre-printed letterhead or an image of it
into a Word template. I heard it was possible by scanning the printed
letterhead so I tried it. The printed letterhead includes stuff at the
top
(about 1" high: the name of the firm), halfway or more down the left
margin
(say 1.5" wide: names of the suits) and stuff at the bottom resembling a
footer (about 1.5" high: office addresses) I have read through the
detailed
papers by the ever-helpful Ms. Barnhill and others but I can't figure out
how to do this. I scanned the pre-printed letterhead in to a tif file,
and
using Paint broke it up into the 3 parts I described (top, side, bottom).
But after a lot of text boxes, headers, tables, inserting pictures, files,
objects and heaven knows what else, I have gotten nowhere. Tried
"background," too, but the images is vastly oversize! (I asked our
stationery supplier for a graphic, although I am not sure what I would
actually do with it.) BTW, a year or two ago somebody tried to actually
recreate the letterhead in Word at the keyboard but the result was pretty
ugly (for starters, the fonts and graphics are hard to recreate in Word).
Any suggestions?



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