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How do I access a created template from letter wizard
I have created a letter template in Word 2003 and it is saved in the template
directory. I want to access this template from the "letter wizard" so I can insert a contact into the address line. When I choose a page style from the letter wizard dialoge box, I cannot find the template. How can access this template from letter wizard? If I cannot access this template, then how can insert a contact into the address line from this template without letter wizard? |
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Close Word. In the Templates directory, create a subdirectory named
"Letters & Faxes". Put your letter template in that subdirectory. Start Word. Your template should now appear with the Microsoft templates on the "Letters & Faxes" tab. trying to streamline wrote: I have created a letter template in Word 2003 and it is saved in the template directory. I want to access this template from the "letter wizard" so I can insert a contact into the address line. When I choose a page style from the letter wizard dialoge box, I cannot find the template. How can access this template from letter wizard? If I cannot access this template, then how can insert a contact into the address line from this template without letter wizard? |
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The template's name needs to contain the letters "letter."
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/ 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). 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. "trying to streamline" trying to wrote in message ... I have created a letter template in Word 2003 and it is saved in the template directory. I want to access this template from the "letter wizard" so I can insert a contact into the address line. When I choose a page style from the letter wizard dialoge box, I cannot find the template. How can access this template from letter wizard? If I cannot access this template, then how can insert a contact into the address line from this template without letter wizard? |
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Unless the template's name contain's "letter" it won't show up as a wizard
option even if in the Letters and Templates folder. If it does contain those characters, it will show up even if in a different sub folder of the User Templates or Workgroup Templates folder. -- 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. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Close Word. In the Templates directory, create a subdirectory named "Letters & Faxes". Put your letter template in that subdirectory. Start Word. Your template should now appear with the Microsoft templates on the "Letters & Faxes" tab. trying to streamline wrote: I have created a letter template in Word 2003 and it is saved in the template directory. I want to access this template from the "letter wizard" so I can insert a contact into the address line. When I choose a page style from the letter wizard dialoge box, I cannot find the template. How can access this template from letter wizard? If I cannot access this template, then how can insert a contact into the address line from this template without letter wizard? |
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Actually, the Letter Wizard will pick up any template that has "letter" in
the name (including "letterhead"). But what it does to your carefully crafted template is not necessarily something you want to experience. You'd do better to write your own UserForm to collect the data to insert in the template. -- 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. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Close Word. In the Templates directory, create a subdirectory named "Letters & Faxes". Put your letter template in that subdirectory. Start Word. Your template should now appear with the Microsoft templates on the "Letters & Faxes" tab. trying to streamline wrote: I have created a letter template in Word 2003 and it is saved in the template directory. I want to access this template from the "letter wizard" so I can insert a contact into the address line. When I choose a page style from the letter wizard dialoge box, I cannot find the template. How can access this template from letter wizard? If I cannot access this template, then how can insert a contact into the address line from this template without letter wizard? |
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Ahhh... I misunderstood the question. I didn't see the "letter wizard"
part. I thought the OP was asking how to get his/her template to appear on the "Letters & Faxes" tab under General Templates. Charles Kenyon wrote: Unless the template's name contain's "letter" it won't show up as a wizard option even if in the Letters and Templates folder. If it does contain those characters, it will show up even if in a different sub folder of the User Templates or Workgroup Templates folder. |
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I know, I don't understand why someone would want to run a perfectly good
template through the meat grinder that is the letter wizard, myself. -- 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. "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Ahhh... I misunderstood the question. I didn't see the "letter wizard" part. I thought the OP was asking how to get his/her template to appear on the "Letters & Faxes" tab under General Templates. Charles Kenyon wrote: Unless the template's name contain's "letter" it won't show up as a wizard option even if in the Letters and Templates folder. If it does contain those characters, it will show up even if in a different sub folder of the User Templates or Workgroup Templates folder. |
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