Changing margins of a page after page breaks?

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I have a template with a letterhead on the righthand side of the page. When the letter goes to the second page, the margins stay the same as if there is still a letterhead on the righthand side of the page. I want to know how to change the settings so that the margins change automatically to the full paper size

Can anyone help??

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Jurie

Set the margins for the whole template to the size you want them for the
second and remaining pages.

In File > Page Setup, on the Layout tab, check the box for "Different first
page" headers.

On the first page of the template, cut the logo to the clipboard. Open the
header area (it should say "First Page Header" in the upper left). Use
Insert > Text Box, and draw a text box in the part of the page where you
want the logo. If you want the first page's right text margin to be uniform,
make the text box go all the way from the top to the bottom of the text
column.

Right-click the text box, select Format Text Box, and set its Fill to "No
fill", its Line to "No line", and its text wrapping (on the Layout tab) to
Square. Paste the logo into the text box. Close the header and save the
template.

When you create a document based on the template, the text box will force
all the body text to stay to its left. Because the text box is only in the
First Page Header, the rest of the pages will use the regular document
margin.

The logo will be dimmed on screen but will print normally, just like
anything else in the header.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Hi,

You don't do this with the margins but rather in headers and footers. Set
your margins to be the way you want them for pages that don't have your
letterhead.

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.
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm> This gives
step-by-step instructions.

Also take a look at:
Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial <url:
http://addbalance.com/word/download/index.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial>

Template Basics
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm>

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm>

Word "Forms"
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms> and

Word for Word Perfect Users
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm> if you are coming
from a WP environment (or even if you are not).

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
<URL: http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm>

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.

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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!
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I have a template with a letterhead on the righthand side of the page.

When the letter goes to the second page, the margins stay the same as if
there is still a letterhead on the righthand side of the page. I want to
know how to change the settings so that the margins change automatically to
the full paper size.