Headers and Footers

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Looking for assistance with Headers and Footers. I basically can work them
to make them do what I want, but I don't know how to use them to the best of
their functionality. I work in a law firm where we don't have "letterhead"
per se. It is a header used on a blank sheet of paper and then printed on
bond. As it is, I have placed what the firm calls the Header, in the Word
Header, but I do not know how to make it only appear on the first page.

So if I type letters that run longer than a page, I end up inserting a New
Page Section break, make the Word Header not "same as previous" and then
insert a page #, date and file name header for the remaining pages of the
document.

That's find for me, but I have one attorney who is very self-sufficient and
not greatly Word-savvy, not that I am mind you, but doesn't want to be
bothered with all the extra steps I take to remove the Firm Header from the
second page.

Can someone tell me the "right" way to do this so I can correct her
"Letterhead" template?

Thank you
Marcia

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Marcia

Cut the header information to the clipboard. Go into File > Page Setup, on
the Layout tab, and check the box for "Different first page". Click OK. Open
the header area (which will now say First Page Header) and paste in the
header information. Close the header area. Now you don't need any section
break.

This should all be done in a template, not in each individual document. See

Creating a Template – The Basics (Part I)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

Creating a Template (Part II)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Charles Kenyon]

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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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