I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and right
sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the boxes move down
as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the header? I'm worried that
will make the template buggy. Is there a way to lock the text boxes so they
don't move?
Thanks!

Know enough to get in trouble wrote:
I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and
right sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the
boxes move down as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the
header? I'm worried that will make the template buggy. Is there a
way to lock the text boxes so they don't move?
Thanks!

Yes, you need to anchor the boxes in the header. No, it won't make the
template buggy. No, there is no other way to lock their positions.

See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm, especially the
section titled "More complex letterhead".

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Putting the text boxes in the first-page header is _the_ way to handle this.
It won't make the template buggy. Take a look at: Letterhead Textboxes and
Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial
and 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

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).

If you are interested in creating templates that will work with the letter
wizard or use that wizard, you should look at the chapter on Advanced
Document Formatting in Using Office 2003 (or whatever your version is),
Special Edition, by Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard. It has detailed instructions
including instructions on getting the fields you want from your Outlook
Contacts for addressing a letter. (Chapter 19 of SE Using Office 2003) You
should be able to get this through your public library or at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...ncecheckbookA/

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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I have built a letterhead template with text boxes on the left and right
sides. When I generate a new document from the template, the boxes move
down
as I type text. Do I need to put the boxes in the header? I'm worried
that
will make the template buggy. Is there a way to lock the text boxes so
they
don't move?
Thanks!