I wish to creat a letterhead in word and have it saved as a template (i
belive .dot) but i wish t have it be selected from within Outlook 2003 in the
letter wizard set up?

It is probably simpler to integrate Outlook data in to your letter and
envelope templates using the method suggested at
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and avoid the letter wizard
altogether.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Mark wrote:
I wish to creat a letterhead in word and have it saved as a template
(i belive .dot) but i wish t have it be selected from within Outlook
2003 in the letter wizard set up?

It is my recollection (from reading Using Office - Que) or one of Woody
Leonhard's other books that if you put the template in the Letters & Faxes
folder of your Workgroup Templates folder and have the word "letter" in the
name of the template, it will appear among the selections. He has detailed
instructions on using the wizard. I never use it so haven't tested this.
Please let me (and others) know if this is correct.

Otherwise, you may well be happier anyway with the solution Graham suggests.

Word's built-in letter templates are nice in layout and formatting but
otherwise really pretty lame in that they don't use many Word features that
are useful for letterhead templates. In setting up your template you may
want to 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,
--

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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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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"Mark" wrote in message
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I wish to creat a letterhead in word and have it saved as a template (i
belive .dot) but i wish t have it be selected from within Outlook 2003 in
the
letter wizard set up?

It doesn't even have to be in the Letters & Faxes folder, just have "letter"
in the name. When I try it, it pulls up such templates as "Dad's PDG
Letterhead." My experience, though, has been that it ignores much of the
template formatting (and styles?) and imposes its own. I haven't tried it in
years, so it's possible that it has been improved in recent versions, but,
given that the Manual.dot template doesn't seem to have changed much since
Word for Windows 95, I would be willing to bet that little effort has been
expended on these wizards.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
It is my recollection (from reading Using Office - Que) or one of Woody
Leonhard's other books that if you put the template in the Letters & Faxes
folder of your Workgroup Templates folder and have the word "letter" in
the
name of the template, it will appear among the selections. He has detailed
instructions on using the wizard. I never use it so haven't tested this.
Please let me (and others) know if this is correct.

Otherwise, you may well be happier anyway with the solution Graham
suggests.

Word's built-in letter templates are nice in layout and formatting but
otherwise really pretty lame in that they don't use many Word features
that
are useful for letterhead templates. In setting up your template you may
want to 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,
--

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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from my ignorance and your wisdom.


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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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"Mark" wrote in message
...
I wish to creat a letterhead in word and have it saved as a template (i
belive .dot) but i wish t have it be selected from within Outlook 2003
in
the
letter wizard set up?