My company letterhead has been created in Quark Xpress (Jan 2005 version),
and I would like to be able to use this as a template for Word 2003 documents
that will be transmitted electronically. Does anyone know this can be done?
Is Scansoft likely to work?

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My company letterhead has been created in Quark Xpress (Jan 2005
version), and I would like to be able to use this as a template for
Word 2003 documents that will be transmitted electronically. Does
anyone know this can be done? Is Scansoft likely to work?

RANTI see this all the time.. I often have clients who have hired image
consultants that produce very elegant and beautiful letterheads... in Quark
Xpress, only to realize that their employees cannot use Quark Xpress...
Then I have to produce a Word equivalent respecting the design they paid so
much for that it must be perfect and so I cannot possibly question any of
it. Even if they did not take into account that a Fax may be sent to more
than one person (the design has to be totally revamped, but the client does
not want to pay (the design is already paid for after all), and the designer
will not do it nor pay me, so I end up redesigning the whole thing free of
charge so that I can preserve my relationship with the client and the
designer...), or that the space for the name is too narrow because they used
"John Smith" in the design sample approved by the client, also there is no
consideration for the second page, etc. And then they complain when I tell
them there is no way I can have a title at 13.35 points with a border
exactly 2.37 points thick at exactly 3.87 points below the base line and
always 0.27 inches long.and body text at 11.74 points...aaaarrrrgghhhhh
\RANT

Ok feel better now!

Depending on the complexity of the design, you can export the Quark Xpress
document as a PDF, then with Acrobat Writer save it as a Word document.
If the design is very complex, this will probably produce garbage, then the
best thing is to create a template from scratch in Word by copying the Quark
Xpress design.

Again, depending on the complexity, scanning maybe an option.

Whatever option you chose, you will have to adjust it in Word.

If it is just a matter of adding a logo to a blank document, then ask the PR
or Communication dept. to provide the logo as a graphic file.
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Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
ISTOO
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