Typing in the margin

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I may be searching under the wrong terminology, but I am unable to find how to type in the margin. I am re-creating our company letterhead in Word so that associates can type a letter and email it instead of printing and mailing. Our logo is on top and the address information is in the 1 7/8" left margin. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Karen,

Put your address text in a frame and position the frame in the margin. You
can find the insert frame icon on the the forms toolbar.

See:

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

 

[rlampky]

Another alternative is to place the letterhead in the Header as Maxey
stated, and create two colums. Position the first to encompass where you
want the margin text and then end with the cursor in the top of the second
columm where you want to place the letter. You could also build a
boilerplate for them in the letter section to help them keep formating the
same accross the business.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Put your letterhead in headers and footers. You can use a negative indents
in the header/footer styles to move text around. You can also use tables,
text boxes, or frames to hold text elements. Even though it is in the header
or footer, text boxes or frames can actually be anywhere on the page you
want them to be.

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.

You may want to download the letterhead system from:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/download.htm>

This may not be the best way to set up letterhead, but it is a way that
works for me. It consists of modular components so that changes to a
letterhead are reflected in all form documents created from then on while
documents that were created earlier remain unchanged.

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:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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I may be searching under the wrong terminology, but I am unable to find

how to type in the margin. I am re-creating our company letterhead in Word
so that associates can type a letter and email it instead of printing and
mailing. Our logo is on top and the address information is in the 1 7/8"
left margin. Any help would be appreciated.