To expand on Jay's suggestion, apply "Top & Bottom" or "Square" Text Wraping
to the text box (or another style if appropriate) to prevent the added
content from overprinting the box. One drawback is that if the user also
needs to enter the address info they will have to access the Header/Footer
to do so. That leaves the door open for them to change anything about the
text box, including its positioning.
If you need to do this regularly it might be worth setting up a
Form/Template. If not familiar with them you might take a look at ;
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm
As well as the links to Dian Chapman's web site.
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Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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In File Page Setup Layout, check "Different first page". That will
create a separate first-page header (and footer). Place the cursor in the
first-page header and then use Insert Text Box to create the address
area. It may not be intuitively obvious, but the text box doesn't have to
be within the header area; you can position it anywhere on the page.
Because it's anchored in the first-page header, it won't be repeated on
any other pages.
It shouldn't matter in this setup whether the box is set to absolute or
relative positioning. If it's relative, it will be relative to the
first-page header paragraph, which isn't going to move anyway.
See the section "Letterhead for a multi-page letter" in
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for steps to deal with
the other-page header if you need that.
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Tony K wrote:
The overall objective is to have the address positioned as such, that
when the document is edited the address stays in the same location.
Then when the document is printed it is folded and the mailing
address is visible through the envelope. That is all we want to
accomplish.
Thanks for the suggestions!
"CyberTaz" wrote:
Not completely accurate... the fact is that an object *cannot* be
anchored to a page in Word because Word has no physical page
structure.
The steps described are as close as you can get, but the absolute
positioning on the page pertains to the "page" containing the
*paragraph* to which the object is anchored. As long as that text is
on the same page the object will stay put, but if that para flows to
a different page the object will go with it and assume a possition
on *that* page based on the Picture Position settings.
To the OP: If possible you really should do this sort of fixed
layout work in a program that supports it, such as Publisher. Even
in Word there are other approaches that probably will work better if
you supply more detail on what your overall objective is.
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HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"salty" wrote in message
ps.com...
Create a text box
Right click on Text box border | Format Text box...
Layout | Advanced
Picture Position Tab
Horizontal | Absolute Position | to the right of | Select Page
Vertical | Absolute Position | below | Select Page
This will lock your text box in the position on the page no matter
how the text is edited on the rest of the page.
Happy2Help
Conrad