I am trying to use letterhead I designed in Word for each letter that I type.
But the margins are different on the letterhead than I want the rest of the
letter to be. I've tried to change it on the letterhead part and choose
selected text only and then change it for the rest of my letter but it don't
work. Any suggestions, please?

Set up a First Page Header in the document and in that anchor a text box
that extends down the page to force the text in the main body of the
document over to the position that you want the margin to be.

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I am trying to use letterhead I designed in Word for each letter that I
type.
But the margins are different on the letterhead than I want the rest of
the
letter to be. I've tried to change it on the letterhead part and choose
selected text only and then change it for the rest of my letter but it
don't
work. Any suggestions, please?

The proper way to set this up is described at
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm

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"legallypreferred" wrote in
message ...
I am trying to use letterhead I designed in Word for each letter that I
type.
But the margins are different on the letterhead than I want the rest of
the
letter to be. I've tried to change it on the letterhead part and choose
selected text only and then change it for the rest of my letter but it
don't
work. Any suggestions, please?

Take a look at: 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

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial

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,
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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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"legallypreferred" wrote in
message ...
I am trying to use letterhead I designed in Word for each letter that I
type.
But the margins are different on the letterhead than I want the rest of
the
letter to be. I've tried to change it on the letterhead part and choose
selected text only and then change it for the rest of my letter but it
don't
work. Any suggestions, please?