Header/Footer

[Guest]

We use a letterhead in our department and it was created using the header and
the footer part (of Word 2000), so that you can just click into the "body" of
the letterhead and just type your letter.

Most of our letters are brief (paragraph or two), but today I noticed that
if you keep typing a letter it creates a second page with another letterhead.
We need to have a blank page for the second (and third, so on) page. I
cannot seem to get it to do that. I am savvy enough to manipulate it so that
it is a blank second page. But not everyone can do that.

Can someone tell me how to create a letterhead using the header/footer, so
that is just stays on the first page (and not move to the second page)???

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, it just deleted the header and the footer.....

 

[Charles Kenyon]

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://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial

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


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[Guest]

You may have to start anew. Delete your header and your footer, go to file,
page setup, layout, check the different first page and then go to okay. Now
make your letter head header, and your footer. Try it out by typing whatever
and getting a second page

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It did _not_ delete the header and footer. You will see the First Page
Header and footer boxes on the first page, you need a second page to see the
regular (continuation) header and footer. See the article I referred you to
earlier.
--
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


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