Hi Sam

You suspect wrong g.

All you have to do to get different headers and footers on first and
subsequent pages is use File Page Setup Layout and check "different
first page". Add a page break so that you have two pages to work on while
setting up the headers and footers, and work in Header and Footer view to
add the items you want on the two different headers and footers. Then delete
the second page and save the template. When you create a new document from
the template it will just have the first page header and footer, but if and
when it runs onto the second page, the second page header and footer will
spring back into life.

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"Sam Lewis" wrote in message
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Thanks Charles
Quite a bit of reading to plod through but will give it a go.

I suspect if you add a separate second page header with or without page
number then everytime you use that template it will print a second page,
even if you've typed only a few words on the first page.The only way
around
this is to go into print setup each time and choose print first page only
from the print range.Do you know if there is another way that
automatically
ignores a second page if unused apart from header info?

Thanks again
Sam

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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First, don't use "Insert Page Number," ever.

Everything you want to do can be done, fairly easily. 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).

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!
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"Sam Lewis" wrote in message
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Hi to all,

I want to place my name and qualifications at the top of the first page
of my letters and on subsequent pages only to have a reference number
and page number displayed at the top. Across the bottom of first and
subsequent pages I want to display contact details. If I write a brief
one-page letter then I only want the first page to print without the
subsequent pages to print with redundant header and footer Information.
Can this be done? Can you have totally separate and independent headers
and footers for first and subsequent pages?

One of the problems I have experienced is when I "insert Page number"
and check not to display on page 1, the footer information disappears
from view. This is irrespective of whether the page number has been
placed in the header.

Many thanks for your help!

Sam