MS Word templates for personal correspondence not available

[Guest]

I find it inexplicable that neither the Word product nor the online template
collections ofer any simple templates for personal correspondence. I would
like to see some templates that do not have a huge company name or
superfluous figures and drawings.

How about some personal correspondence templates with just nice layouts, and
simple line borders and typestyles?

 

[Jezebel]

I find it inexplicable that there are people who can't write a personal
letter without third-party templates. Occasionally I receive personal
letters with 'nice layouts', simple line borders and silver cherubs blowing
trumpets, and all the other mawkish embellishments that seem to appeal to
the brain dead. And right away I know the writer is an obnoxious half wit.

 

[Guest]

can you help me.........how do i make a VHS printable cover?is there a
template?

 

[Guest]

Have you tried using the Letter Wizard in Word? If that doesn't work for
you, I guess I don't understand what it is you are looking for. If you know
what you want, type it to look that way.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

.... and then save the format as your template.

You may want to 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://home.earthlink.net/~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,
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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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[Charles Kenyon]

Avery (and I suspect others make labels/cards for this purpose). You can
select these in the envelope/label wizard.
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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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