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Need a template with a permanent list along left side of page
We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally
we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder |
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Sandra Grawunder wrote:
We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder See "More complex letterhead" in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm. Follow the instructions for creating a textbox or frame that is anchored in the header and extends down the left margin. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Yes, you would use a textbox or frame in the first-page header. 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. "Sandra Grawunder" wrote in message ... We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder |
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Thank you both for the great info!
"Sandra Grawunder" wrote: We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder |
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Need a template with a permanent list along left side of page
Can you get this list down the side to appear in an Outlook message?
"Charles Kenyon" wrote: Yes, you would use a textbox or frame in the first-page header. 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. "Sandra Grawunder" wrote in message ... We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder |
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Need a template with a permanent list along left side of page
Sorry, way beyond my skill level here. I don't use Word to draft email
messages. Generally headers are not part of an email message AFAIK. You can send the document as an attachment and it will then have the header (and your list). -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Lewis0205NC" wrote in message ... Can you get this list down the side to appear in an Outlook message? "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Yes, you would use a textbox or frame in the first-page header. 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. "Sandra Grawunder" wrote in message ... We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder |
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Need a template with a permanent list along left side of page
I have a similar problem, but twice as complicated. Similar to the last
picture on the link, but with the body to be divided into two columns. The left margin needs to be maintained. The problem I'm having is that I don't need the text box on subsequent pages but need to maintain its margin(for a picture background). If I don't have a text box on following pages, the columns freak out and start altering their start points. I've tried to change the margin, but it moves my background picture over as well. Without using text boxes, is there a way to have two columns start a certain distance from the side and be maintained across multiple pages? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sandra Grawunder wrote: We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder See "More complex letterhead" in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm. Follow the instructions for creating a textbox or frame that is anchored in the header and extends down the left margin. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Need a template with a permanent list along left side of page
In that situation, why not just increase the left margin? Your background
picture position can be corrected using the Advanced Layout to set its position relative to the page rather than the margin. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "howdylee" wrote in message ... I have a similar problem, but twice as complicated. Similar to the last picture on the link, but with the body to be divided into two columns. The left margin needs to be maintained. The problem I'm having is that I don't need the text box on subsequent pages but need to maintain its margin(for a picture background). If I don't have a text box on following pages, the columns freak out and start altering their start points. I've tried to change the margin, but it moves my background picture over as well. Without using text boxes, is there a way to have two columns start a certain distance from the side and be maintained across multiple pages? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sandra Grawunder wrote: We have a standard template with our logo, etc. across the top. Occasionally we need to print letters where our list of Board of Directors is printed down the left side of the page directly beneath the logo. I have tried using the 2 column approach with the Board list in a left column and our body text in a larger right column, but editing and formatting becomes a nightmare and the text in the left column gets moved around. Presently I am using a jpg that I created of our Board list, inserting this into the page, and using place behind text so I can move it beyond the margins set for the body text. This works much better but I still have some individuals in the office that cannot manage to create a letter without moving the graphic off base. Is there a way to create a header or footer thingie that is on the side of a letter rather than top or bottom??? Thanks, Sandra Grawunder See "More complex letterhead" in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm. Follow the instructions for creating a textbox or frame that is anchored in the header and extends down the left margin. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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