Set different right margin at bottom part of first page in templa

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Mike Norris

My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The
stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information in the
bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for the whole first
page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a top margin of 1.5", left
and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of 1" (that's easy - here comes the
hard part). If the letter reaches the last 3" of printing area (4" from
bottom of page), the right margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run
into the contact info. How do I do this in Office 2000?
 
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Jay Freedman

Mike said:
My company hired a design firm to create a new logo, etc. for us. The
stationery we got has the logo at the top and the contact information
in the bottom right corner. I could use a right margin of 2.5" for
the whole first page, but it looks stupid. I need a template with a
top margin of 1.5", left and right margins of 1.25", bottom margin of
1" (that's easy - here comes the hard part). If the letter reaches
the last 3" of printing area (4" from bottom of page), the right
margin needs to change to 2.5" so as not to run into the contact
info. How do I do this in Office 2000?
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Hi Mike,

Exactly how is the contact info positioned in the bottom right corner?

If it's in a text box or frame, you don't change the margins -- you change
the text wrapping of the box/frame. For a text box, right-click the edge of
the box, select Format Text Box, go to the Layout tab, and select Square
wrapping. For a frame, right-click, select Format Frame, and select Around
for the wrapping.

If that isn't what you have, post back and explain the arrangement.
 
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Mike Norris

Sorry, my question wasn't very clear. Actually, the contact info is on
printed stationery. My template is intended to work around it. But I figured
out from your reply how to do it - insert an invisible textbox as a place
holder (with a space character to keep it from disappearing) and let the text
wrap around it. So, my question was answered. Thank you.
 
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Charles Kenyon

Hi,

You probably want to either be using a textbox to position items in a
first-page header/footer or adjusting the paragraph indents for your
first-page header/footer. I would first look at the use of a borderless
empty textbox set to wrap text around it.
See Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial

Margins are a setting for sections, not individual pages. 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

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,
 
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