template backgrounds

[Eric Staswick]

We are implementing some new letterheads in our department and I need to
provide staff with a template with approriate margins set up and a background
image of the letterhead displayed but not printed.. it works fine on my
computer, but how do I attach the image to teh template for other users when
I distribute it?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It will print, or not, depending on the user's settings to print drawings.

You might 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://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial
(for simulating different margins on different pages, among other things)


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).

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


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[Eric Staswick]

I understand how to make it print or not print, my only problem is that if I
"file>save as>template" the document when it is loaded on another computer if
sets the margins properly but not the backgorund image.. I need a way to
attach the image in the template file if possible. If it comes to it our
staff isnt that big (20-30) and I could set it up on each computer
seperately, but thsi seems the least acceptable option.. perhaps a globally
shared template on the network could be implemented, if so is it possible to
direct a template to a specific file stored loaclly for the background? In
that way I could still have the basketball coaches letterhead and the
football coaches letterhead display on each users computer yet use the single
template file

 

[Charles Kenyon]

How are you inserting the "background image" on your computer?
--
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




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[Eric Staswick]

format>background>fill effects and then a 72 dpi jpeg