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Daiya Mitchell Daiya Mitchell is offline
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Hi Mike,

The difference between the "text box in a first page footer" and the
original request is cosmetic--Yogurt Man seemed to want the text to end
above the graphic completely, leaving the space to the left of the
graphic blank on a 2-page letter. This route puts text in that space.
Yogurt's Man later post suggested that would look terrible, in his opinion.

I pointed out that I had already made the suggestion of a "text box in a
first page footer" because I felt that someone familiar enough with Word
to identify this as a good approach should also be able to read what I
said and recognize that it was the same thing, even if lacking concrete
directions.

You may have been confused by my ungrammatical "I suggest it's not the
route" in which "it's" was meant to refer back to Yogurt Man's original
idea of dynamic margins (not the "textbox in a first page footer"
route). That sentence was meant to respond to his question "Why do you
suggest this is probably NOT the route?". I had re-arranged my
paragraphs and made them a little less comprehensible without updating
the language.

Daiya

Mike Starr wrote:
What I suggested would use the text box only on the bottom of page one, so
text on page one would wrap around the text box but there would be no text
box on page two or subsequent pages. The text box wouldn't contain any text
but would only be used as an object to force text to wrap around it on the
first page only. Far as I can tell, that satisfies all of Yogurt Man's
requirements without any need for complex macro solutions. It allows the
signature on the left, next to the image on the letterhead when there's only
a single page worth of content but when there's more than one page of
content, the content itself wraps around the text box on the first page
only. When using letterhead one normally uses the letterhead for the first
page then unprinted paper for subsequent pages. Unless I'm missing something
here about what Yogurt Man really wants to accomplish (and yes, I have been
known to do that now and again grin).

Mike