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How to establish letterhead template on Letters & Faxes tab, Word2002
Using Word 2002.
I need some help or direction to establish a letterhead template. I created a letterhead template. I want it to appear in the Templates Window under the Letters and Fax tab. I did a "save as" .dot and placed it in the F:\program files\office\templates\letters & faxes folder but it doesn't show up in the Templages Window under the L &T tab.And when it does appear I'd like to see a preview of it also. When I created the prototype template and put it on my desktop it appeared under the General tab, but with no preview capability. Also, the dot extension on the name appeared whereas the other templates had no extensions in their names. However, when you right clicked on any other template and selected properties, the name showed with the dot extension but the .dot did not appear in the template screen tabs. How did they do that? TIA |
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First, you probably do not want your template to have preview capability.
This bloats the size of the template and any resulting documents. In your templates folder, create a folder named "Letters & Faxes." Put your template there and it will be under the tab you want. For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm. You may want to 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. "TommyDee" tduprex@gtcinternet[dot]com wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I need some help or direction to establish a letterhead template. I created a letterhead template. I want it to appear in the Templates Window under the Letters and Fax tab. I did a "save as" .dot and placed it in the F:\program files\office\templates\letters & faxes folder but it doesn't show up in the Templages Window under the L &T tab.And when it does appear I'd like to see a preview of it also. When I created the prototype template and put it on my desktop it appeared under the General tab, but with no preview capability. Also, the dot extension on the name appeared whereas the other templates had no extensions in their names. However, when you right clicked on any other template and selected properties, the name showed with the dot extension but the .dot did not appear in the template screen tabs. How did they do that? TIA |
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