[jeremy]

Our letterhead has a black bar at the bottom of each page with the company
contact info reversed out in white. I cannot change the color of a footer
and if I put a text box at the bottom it moves as people type.

Is there a way to create a black bar with reversed out type at the bottom of
the page that does not move as people type and that will appear on each page
for multi-page letters?

I would appreciate any advice that someone could offer to me. Thanks.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure why you think you can't change the color of a footer, as this
is certainly possible. The easiest way to do this might be with a
single-cell table in the footer. Set the cell shading to black. If the text
color is Auto, it will reverse to white automatically. You can also apply
shading to the footer paragraph, but then you have to monkey with adding
borders in order to apply the "Distance from text" option. So it's easier to
create a table cell with exact row height and center the text vertically
within that. Note that Word will require an empty paragraph following the
table. You can either reduce the footer margin to allow for this or format
the paragraph as 1 point or Hidden.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jeremy" wrote in message
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Our letterhead has a black bar at the bottom of each page with the company
contact info reversed out in white. I cannot change the color of a footer
and if I put a text box at the bottom it moves as people type.

Is there a way to create a black bar with reversed out type at the bottom
of
the page that does not move as people type and that will appear on each
page
for multi-page letters?

I would appreciate any advice that someone could offer to me. Thanks.

[RealGomer]

There's another solution I've used with our letterhead. Take an original
letterhead and scan it as a JPEG or TIFF file. Personally, I prefer JPEG
(JPG). Clip the image so it includes only your letterhead information and
save the file.

Open a blank document in Word. Go to INSERT - PICTURE - FROM FILE and select
the JPG file with your letterhead, and press OKAY. In the document, RIGHT
CLICK the image and select FORMAT OBJECT. From the pop up box, select LAYOUT.
I use the BEHIND TEXT option and select CENTER. Select OKAY. You can now
move the picture to anywhere in the document and the text will not cause it
to move. Plus you still have use of the footer.

Now save your document as either a Word Document or template. I usually just
save it as a DOC file because it's easier than trying to add it to the
template gallery. This procedure has worked in every version of Word since 97.


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I know enuff to be dangerous.


"Jeremy" wrote:

Our letterhead has a black bar at the bottom of each page with the company
contact info reversed out in white. I cannot change the color of a footer
and if I put a text box at the bottom it moves as people type.

Is there a way to create a black bar with reversed out type at the bottom of
the page that does not move as people type and that will appear on each page
for multi-page letters?

I would appreciate any advice that someone could offer to me. Thanks.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This works best if you anchor the graphic to the First Page Header, in which
case you probably want Square wrapping unless there's part of the letterhead
you really want to have Behind Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"RealGomer" wrote in message
...
There's another solution I've used with our letterhead. Take an original
letterhead and scan it as a JPEG or TIFF file. Personally, I prefer JPEG
(JPG). Clip the image so it includes only your letterhead information and
save the file.

Open a blank document in Word. Go to INSERT - PICTURE - FROM FILE and
select
the JPG file with your letterhead, and press OKAY. In the document, RIGHT
CLICK the image and select FORMAT OBJECT. From the pop up box, select
LAYOUT.
I use the BEHIND TEXT option and select CENTER. Select OKAY. You can now
move the picture to anywhere in the document and the text will not cause
it
to move. Plus you still have use of the footer.

Now save your document as either a Word Document or template. I usually
just
save it as a DOC file because it's easier than trying to add it to the
template gallery. This procedure has worked in every version of Word since
97.


--
I know enuff to be dangerous.


"Jeremy" wrote:

Our letterhead has a black bar at the bottom of each page with the
company
contact info reversed out in white. I cannot change the color of a
footer
and if I put a text box at the bottom it moves as people type.

Is there a way to create a black bar with reversed out type at the
bottom of
the page that does not move as people type and that will appear on each
page
for multi-page letters?

I would appreciate any advice that someone could offer to me. Thanks.