Word 2003 document templates SOS!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

I created a letterhead for our company and saved it as a document template in
the "Templates" folder on my hard drive. When I want to access the template
to create a normal Word document, it just gives me a blank page when I
doubleclick on the template icon. When I then say "view" "header/footer",
the template appears, but I dont want to have to do that every time I want to
use the template.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to correct this
problem???
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Jurie Fourie
Management Accountant
Jacobs & Partners
Worcester
South Africa

 

[Bill Foley]

This might be as simple as clicking the "View" menu and selecting "Print
Layout". Also, when NOT in the Header/Footer the text appears "grayed-out".
have you tried clicking the "Print Preview" button? When you do the
Header/Footer information will be shown as it will print.

If not this simple, holler back!

 

[Guest]

Floating objects are not visible in Normal view, so switch to Print Layout
view if you're not already in it. Click on Tools | Options | View tab |
check the "Drawings" and "White space between pages" boxes and uncheck the
"Picture placeholders" box | Print tab | check the "Drawing objects" box | OK.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In addition to what Bill and Garfield have told you, let me clarify. A
template is not something you can see; it is *meant* to be a "blank page."
Your template apparently contains text elements (a letterhead, I gather) in
the header, but these are not what makes it a template. Normal.dot, the
global template on which all Blank Documents are based, contains a world of
AutoText and styles and whatever customizations you may add to it, but the
appearance it presents when you create a new document based on it is a
completely blank page.

As the others have suggested, your problem is most likely caused by either
(a) being in Normal view rather than Print Layout (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm) or (b) having "white
space" hidden (see http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/WhiteSpace.htm).

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

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