2 page letter template

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Deb H

I would like to create a 2 page template that I could use to create a new letter. The second page needs to have different margins and a footer with no text on the page. The first page would have a date only. Whenever I try to create and use this template, the text on page 1 pushes the section break forward and the new margins to the wrong page. Any help is appreciated.
 
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Jay Freedman

Deb H said:
I would like to create a 2 page template that I could use to create a new letter. The second page needs to have different margins and a footer with no text on the page. The first page would have a date only. Whenever I try to create and use this template, the text on page 1 pushes the section break forward and the new margins to the wrong page. Any help is appreciated.

See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm



Deb H said:
I would like to create a 2 page template that I could use to create a new
letter. The second page needs to have different margins and a footer with no
text on the page. The first page would have a date only. Whenever I try to
create and use this template, the text on page 1 pushes the section break
forward and the new margins to the wrong page. Any help is appreciated.
 
C

Charles Kenyon

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.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial

Template Basics
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

Word "Forms"
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.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/ISBN=0789729555/balancecheckbookA/

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,



Deb H said:
I would like to create a 2 page template that I could use to create a new
letter. The second page needs to have different margins and a footer with no
text on the page. The first page would have a date only. Whenever I try to
create and use this template, the text on page 1 pushes the section break
forward and the new margins to the wrong page. Any help is appreciated.
 

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