How do I make letterheads in Word?
Big Banana
I'm not sure if letterhead is the right word... but what I need is this:
I want to write business letters...
Where on the first page I have a business logo, address etc at the top
somewhere...
But... for any subsequent pages... I only want to have a small logo in the
top corner and maybe a small footer (or something similar)...
It's probably really simple...
But how do I do it!?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
BB
Suzanne S. Barnhill
necessarily the most intuitive). Once you understand what you're doing,
however, you will see that this is the right way to go about it.
1. You definitely don't want to go to all this trouble with every letter you
write, so you want to create a template that you can base the letters on. If
you don't know how to create a template, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm
2. In your new template, View | Header and Footer. In the Header put what
you want to appear on the second and subsequent pages when there are any.
You'll probably want to include a page number; there's an Insert Page Number
button on the Header and Footer toolbar that will do this with one click.
3. When you have completed this header, press the Page Setup button on the
Header and Footer toolbar and check the box for "Different first page" on
the Layout tab.
4. When you return to the header pane, you'll see that you're now in the
First Page Header. The Header you just so carefully created will have
disappeared. But Word has not forgotten it. Whenever your letter runs to a
second page, it will use that header for that page and the rest (trust me on
this). If you are skeptical, insert a manual page break (Ctrl+Enter) in the
body of the template so that you can see your second-page header on page 2.
Don't forget to delete the page break before saving the template.
5. Create your letterhead in the First Page Header.
6. Since you're setting up a template for letters, you might want to include
a CreateDate field at the top; then you won't have to insert the current
date when you begin a new letter; Word will do it for you. Although the
template itself will always have the date you created it, your letters will
have the date they were created (though you won't necessarily see this until
you print or Print Preview or do something else to update the field). You
may also want to insert dummy paragraphs for the Inside Address and
Salutation, and if you use the same Complimentary Close consistently, go
ahead and put that in, along with your Signature. There are built-in styles
for Date, Salutation, Closing, and Signature, and you can modify these to
your preferences and add others for other parts of your letter.
7. Save the template (Word will automatically put it in the right place).
When you want to write a letter, choose this template from the File | New
dialog.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA
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Charles Kenyon
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/index.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#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTu
torial>
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).
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:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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