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Letter Wizard templates will not work
In the Word 2003 Letter Wizard you can choose a page design (template) on the
Letter Format tab and enter other data on the Recipient Info, Other Elements and Sender Info tabs if need be. Once I have done this, the template I have chosen should appear in the Word document and it should contain all the data I have added via the Letter Wizard or from an Outlook 2003 Contact record (if I have triggered Letter Wizard via Outlook). It does not! It doesn't matter which template I choose (they are all called "xxxx Letter.dot" and in the correct folder), no template will appear at all, and all the data (merged or manually entered) will be appear on a blank page. I just cannot get the templates to work at all via the Letter Wizard, and yet they all work fine when used in any other way. I am well and truly stuck - HELP! -- Rodney |
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Try simply using a letter template.
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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "e2rodney" wrote in message ... In the Word 2003 Letter Wizard you can choose a page design (template) on the Letter Format tab and enter other data on the Recipient Info, Other Elements and Sender Info tabs if need be. Once I have done this, the template I have chosen should appear in the Word document and it should contain all the data I have added via the Letter Wizard or from an Outlook 2003 Contact record (if I have triggered Letter Wizard via Outlook). It does not! It doesn't matter which template I choose (they are all called "xxxx Letter.dot" and in the correct folder), no template will appear at all, and all the data (merged or manually entered) will be appear on a blank page. I just cannot get the templates to work at all via the Letter Wizard, and yet they all work fine when used in any other way. I am well and truly stuck - HELP! -- Rodney |
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