Comments on: Create Letterhead Templates in MS Word.

By: Marie Chandler

Marie Chandler — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:40:13 +0000

I am going to make some suggestions for a few questions raised and hopefully they will be of assistance, no guarantees

Ralph: Try and change your preferences/options (sorry I’m on a Mac and can’t remember the PC menus in Word) so that it doesn’t print graphics/images. It may still print text in your header but not the image maybe?

Heather: Similarly, check your preferences under the View options for drawing objects – not sure if that is the problem, but I’m thinking there may be a setting that is preventing the logo from showing since it prints.

Charles: Hard to pinpoint without the document, but have you inserted a section break on page 1? If that is being pushed over the page when you type, then your page 2 header becomes a page 3 header. You only need to have the ‘different first page’ option checked in your Header/Footer and no section break and the logo will appear on page 1 and not page 2. That’s in my experience anyway, but like I said, no guarantees.

Hope this may be of help or at least point you in the right direction. Sorry if it’s just a load of hot air!

By: Charles Tremewen

Charles Tremewen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:10:10 +0000

Hi – We have created the letterhead making the first page of the letter head different than the second (didn’t want the logo on second page) and saved it as a template. When we go to use it we can not get the second page to function properly. When we type a full page on page one and continue to page two the rules we set for the first page special do not function and we get the logo appearing on the top of the second page. We are frustrated. Anyone got a fix to make sure we get our second page to function as it should?

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:37:33 +0000

I was able to convert my InDesign letterhead into word by putting the graphics in the header. But now, when I open the .dot template on another computer the header (logo) isn’t visible. It does appear when I print it, but just not on screen. Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks!!

By: Mike Orrell

Mike Orrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:58:42 +0000

I have a logo on my club letter head how do I transfer it to my pc in to word and make a new letter head. Please help
Kind regards Mike Orrell.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:52:22 +0000

Is there anyway to choose whether or not Word prints the Header containing the letterhead? Whenn I use my letterhead doc, sometimes I want to turn off the header when printing on my preprinted stationary. But normally, I want it displayed when printing to plain paper or creating a PDF.

I guess I can just delete the header containing the letterhead and then print. Then I can just make sure I ctl-z it back once finished. But that seems rather cumbersome.

By: Neal

Neal — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:55:03 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial, I have been trying different ways of doing this for my clients and could never get it quite right – this worked perfectly though!

By: Snettsblog

Snettsblog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:56:01 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. Just a quick question – Lets say you have a horizontally placed graphic that is supposed to span from left edge of the paper to the right edge, but when you print out the created letter head the image has small equal margins on the left and right. How do you get rid of these margins and get the horizontal graphic to span all through?

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By: JimO

JimO — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:42:03 +0000

Great Tips,
I have the same issue as a previous poster. I want my word template to be locked from editing.

I want my users to add text into a table (or another way) and the cells cannot move or increase in size. The print will be visible through a plastic mask with areas cut out. I want it turnkey and simple, is there a way to achieve this Word or do I need custom Word programming? If yes any referrals? Thank You.