See previous answers. You generally can't print from edge to edge. This is a
limitation of printers rather than Word. You can put your logo and other
information into a text box or can change the paragraph indents (to negative
indents) in the first-page header.

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....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

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/IS...ncecheckbookA/

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: 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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"whiz-bang" wrote in message
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he4Hello,
Word 2003, Windows XP Pro
I am trying to create a template for letters, documents, etc. I want a
solid
blue bar going across the top with a logo on the far left and address on
the
far right. When I try to do this in the header/footer, I can't modifiy the
position or the contents. If I make the page margins zero so the blue bar
goes across the page, it affects the content as well. When I try to cut
and
paste or insert the logo into the header, I have problems. I have it
looking
the way I want it by using a frame, but it doesn't repeat on next pages.
This
is so easy to do in PPT but on Word I can't figure it out. I have seen
other
companys with this type of letterhead. I looked through all the tutorials
and
they don't really address this:

1. How do I edit header to go full width of page with background color?
2. How do I add an image to that header on the left hand side
3. How do I add adress info at the top right of page
4. How do I choose to have this repeated throughout the document, or how
do
I have this on page one and a different one on second page