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Letterhead: background as placeholder only (not printed)
I'm working in Word 2003. I've created two identical letterhead templates
that only have one difference. In the first, I want the background to print. In the second, I do NOT want the background to print so I can print it to actual pre-printed letterhead paper. I inserted the jpg background in headers & footers. When I go to Tools, Options and try turning off the "drawing objects" and "background colors and images" it does it for all of Word, not just one specific document. Is this possible? I've read nearly all the the posts here and can't find an answer. What am I missing? Please help. Thanks in advance. |
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Letterhead: background as placeholder only (not printed)
If you have two identical templates, one with an image and one without, then
the one with the image will print and the one without won't, because it doesn't have an image to print. You don't need to do anything else. What you can't do is attach the templates after you have created the document and expect the image to follow. If you want the same template for both then you need a macro that will change the brightness of the image to 100% which makes it white and therefore non-printing. e.g. The following macro will toggle a background image - "Picture 2" ActiveDocument.Shapes("Picture 2").Select If Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 Then Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 1# Else: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 End If http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm It should be possible to adapt this technique to blank out the images and text (by formatting that as white) that you want blanked as part of a print macro in the document template and thus remove the need to have two templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org lizajane90 wrote: I'm working in Word 2003. I've created two identical letterhead templates that only have one difference. In the first, I want the background to print. In the second, I do NOT want the background to print so I can print it to actual pre-printed letterhead paper. I inserted the jpg background in headers & footers. When I go to Tools, Options and try turning off the "drawing objects" and "background colors and images" it does it for all of Word, not just one specific document. Is this possible? I've read nearly all the the posts here and can't find an answer. What am I missing? Please help. Thanks in advance. |
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Letterhead: background as placeholder only (not printed)
Thanks for the advice. Now I just need to figure out how to create a macro!
"Graham Mayor" wrote: If you have two identical templates, one with an image and one without, then the one with the image will print and the one without won't, because it doesn't have an image to print. You don't need to do anything else. What you can't do is attach the templates after you have created the document and expect the image to follow. If you want the same template for both then you need a macro that will change the brightness of the image to 100% which makes it white and therefore non-printing. e.g. The following macro will toggle a background image - "Picture 2" ActiveDocument.Shapes("Picture 2").Select If Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 Then Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 1# Else: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 End If http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm It should be possible to adapt this technique to blank out the images and text (by formatting that as white) that you want blanked as part of a print macro in the document template and thus remove the need to have two templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org lizajane90 wrote: I'm working in Word 2003. I've created two identical letterhead templates that only have one difference. In the first, I want the background to print. In the second, I do NOT want the background to print so I can print it to actual pre-printed letterhead paper. I inserted the jpg background in headers & footers. When I go to Tools, Options and try turning off the "drawing objects" and "background colors and images" it does it for all of Word, not just one specific document. Is this possible? I've read nearly all the the posts here and can't find an answer. What am I missing? Please help. Thanks in advance. |
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Letterhead: background as placeholder only (not printed)
Send me a copy of the template with the graphic(s) and I will see what may
be possible tomorrow. Use the link on my web site. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org lizajane90 wrote: Thanks for the advice. Now I just need to figure out how to create a macro! "Graham Mayor" wrote: If you have two identical templates, one with an image and one without, then the one with the image will print and the one without won't, because it doesn't have an image to print. You don't need to do anything else. What you can't do is attach the templates after you have created the document and expect the image to follow. If you want the same template for both then you need a macro that will change the brightness of the image to 100% which makes it white and therefore non-printing. e.g. The following macro will toggle a background image - "Picture 2" ActiveDocument.Shapes("Picture 2").Select If Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 Then Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 1# Else: Selection.ShapeRange.PictureFormat.Brightness = 0.5 End If http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm It should be possible to adapt this technique to blank out the images and text (by formatting that as white) that you want blanked as part of a print macro in the document template and thus remove the need to have two templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org lizajane90 wrote: I'm working in Word 2003. I've created two identical letterhead templates that only have one difference. In the first, I want the background to print. In the second, I do NOT want the background to print so I can print it to actual pre-printed letterhead paper. I inserted the jpg background in headers & footers. When I go to Tools, Options and try turning off the "drawing objects" and "background colors and images" it does it for all of Word, not just one specific document. Is this possible? I've read nearly all the the posts here and can't find an answer. What am I missing? Please help. Thanks in advance. |
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