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Set different right margin at bottom part of first page in templa
My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The
stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000? |
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Mike Norris wrote:
My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000? Hi Mike, Exactly how is the contact info positioned in the bottom right corner? If it's in a text box or frame, you don't change the margins -- you change the text wrapping of the box/frame. For a text box, right-click the edge of the box, select Format Text Box, go to the Layout tab, and select Square wrapping. For a frame, right-click, select Format Frame, and select Around for the wrapping. If that isn't what you have, post back and explain the arrangement. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Sorry, my question wasn't very clear. Actually, the contact info is on
printed stationery. My template is intended to work around it. But I figured out from your reply how to do it - insert an invisible textbox as a place holder (with a space character to keep it from disappearing) and let the text wrap around it. So, my question was answered. Thank you. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Mike Norris wrote: My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000? Hi Mike, Exactly how is the contact info positioned in the bottom right corner? If it's in a text box or frame, you don't change the margins -- you change the text wrapping of the box/frame. For a text box, right-click the edge of the box, select Format Text Box, go to the Layout tab, and select Square wrapping. For a frame, right-click, select Format Frame, and select Around for the wrapping. If that isn't what you have, post back and explain the arrangement. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Hi,
You probably want to either be using a textbox to position items in a first-page header/footer or adjusting the paragraph indents for your first-page header/footer. I would first look at the use of a borderless empty textbox set to wrap text around it. See Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial Margins are a setting for sections, not individual pages. 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 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. "Mike Norris" Mike wrote in message ... My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000? |
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See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Norris" Mike wrote in message ... My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000? |
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