[angela patrikka]

I have a template that requires a different first page to the rest of the
document.

The document contains macros that link to another application that holds the
data. Depending on the criteria, depends on whether the information is
populated. This could be 1 line, to 10 paragraphs.

If i place a section break at the end of the template, and the text flows
over to 3 pages, only then does the margins change. I need to know if it is
possible to place a hard code of some sort in the document to only be on the
first page no matter what length of text there is.

Regards
Angela

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for the general
principles.

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"angela patrikka" wrote in message
...
I have a template that requires a different first page to the rest of the
document.

The document contains macros that link to another application that holds
the
data. Depending on the criteria, depends on whether the information is
populated. This could be 1 line, to 10 paragraphs.

If i place a section break at the end of the template, and the text flows
over to 3 pages, only then does the margins change. I need to know if it
is
possible to place a hard code of some sort in the document to only be on
the
first page no matter what length of text there is.

Regards
Angela

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Angela

angela patrikka wrote:
I have a template that requires a different first page to the rest of the
document.

The document contains macros that link to another application that holds the
data. Depending on the criteria, depends on whether the information is
populated. This could be 1 line, to 10 paragraphs.

If i place a section break at the end of the template, and the text flows
over to 3 pages, only then does the margins change. I need to know if it is
possible to place a hard code of some sort in the document to only be on the
first page no matter what length of text there is.

It sounds as if you need no section break at all, but to activate
"Different first page" header/footer in File | Page setup.

HTH
Robert
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[angela patrikka]

But i have to create section breaks to allow me to put in teh different
margins. Without section breaks, it doesn't allow me to customize the
different margins.


"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hello Angela

angela patrikka wrote:
I have a template that requires a different first page to the rest of
the
document.

The document contains macros that link to another application that holds
the
data. Depending on the criteria, depends on whether the information is
populated. This could be 1 line, to 10 paragraphs.

If i place a section break at the end of the template, and the text
flows
over to 3 pages, only then does the margins change. I need to know if
it is
possible to place a hard code of some sort in the document to only be on
the
first page no matter what length of text there is.

It sounds as if you need no section break at all, but to activate
"Different first page" header/footer in File | Page setup.

HTH
Robert
--
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\ / | MVP
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/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

[Graham Mayor]

If you don't want section breaks, depending on whether the first or
subsequent pages have the wider margins, you could use borderless text boxes
in the relavant page header with a wrap option set (a header can be anywhere
on the page) to push the text to where you want it to be. You then need to
set a different first page header in the page setup - see Suzanne's link.

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



angela patrikka wrote:
But i have to create section breaks to allow me to put in teh
different margins. Without section breaks, it doesn't allow me to
customize the different margins.


"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hello Angela

angela patrikka wrote:
I have a template that requires a different first page to the rest
of the document.

The document contains macros that link to another application that
holds the data. Depending on the criteria, depends on whether the
information is populated. This could be 1 line, to 10 paragraphs.

If i place a section break at the end of the template, and the text
flows over to 3 pages, only then does the margins change. I need
to know if it is possible to place a hard code of some sort in the
document to only be on the first page no matter what length of text
there is.

It sounds as if you need no section break at all, but to activate
"Different first page" header/footer in File | Page setup.

HTH
Robert
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