Nope, you don't change margins but rather change what is in your headers.
One header, possibly with something that reserves space, for the first page
and a different one for the rest. 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://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm
Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial
Template Basics
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm
How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm
Word "Forms"
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordw...rces.htm#Forms and
Hope this helps,
--
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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Petite" Petite @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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I'm trying to format a document I will be using a template. I want the
first
page's margins to be different than the subsequent pages. I know now to
do
this using section breaks - my problem is that since it is a template I
will
be typing several lines into the first page and this always shifts my
section
break down and thus messes up where I want my new formatting to start.
Is there a way to lock the section break or format based on the page
numbers? I've tried doing section breaks and protecting just them but
they
still get shifted down as I type on the first page.
Help!