Template questions

[studio010]

Hi
I use a template with my company's letter head on it for regular
correspondence which usually winds up beind a 30-40 page document.
There is a header and a footer on the cover page. I'd like to be able
to just start my reports on the cover page and as the report continues
not have the header and footer show on everypage. The way I deal with
it now is to write the report then open the template and copy in
sufficient text to fill the text area and then copy and paste the rest
to another word document. And then I print out each document. It's okay
but still a pain if there is only the printed copy that's needed but I
often need to supply the document and photo's on a cd and it's not the
most professional way to present things.
So how do I limit the template's display of the header and footer to
the first page of the document.

Thanks
studio

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi
I use a template with my company's letter head on it for regular
correspondence which usually winds up beind a 30-40 page document.
There is a header and a footer on the cover page. I'd like to be able
to just start my reports on the cover page and as the report continues
not have the header and footer show on everypage. The way I deal with
it now is to write the report then open the template and copy in
sufficient text to fill the text area and then copy and paste the rest
to another word document. And then I print out each document. It's okay
but still a pain if there is only the printed copy that's needed but I
often need to supply the document and photo's on a cd and it's not the
most professional way to present things.
So how do I limit the template's display of the header and footer to
the first page of the document.

That's so easy. You will kick yourself.
Format->Document->Layout and check 'first page different'
You can then go one better and have an abbreviated letterhead for
follow-on pages. Or one better yet and have a template for double-sided
docs so the follow-on appears only once per spread, with different
odd-even checked too.

 

[matt neuburg]

Hi
I use a template with my company's letter head on it for regular
correspondence which usually winds up beind a 30-40 page document.
There is a header and a footer on the cover page. I'd like to be able
to just start my reports on the cover page and as the report continues
not have the header and footer show on everypage. The way I deal with
it now is to write the report then open the template and copy in
sufficient text to fill the text area and then copy and paste the rest
to another word document. And then I print out each document. It's okay
but still a pain if there is only the printed copy that's needed but I
often need to supply the document and photo's on a cd and it's not the
most professional way to present things.
So how do I limit the template's display of the header and footer to
the first page of the document.

In Word, choose Help > Word Help. In the Help dialog, type "first page
header" (without the quotes) and do the search. You will immediately get
an explanation of how to do this. Basically there are two ways; you can
either divide your document into sections, where each section can have a
different header/footer set, or you can use a single section and take
advantage of the Word feature that lets you assign just the first page a
special header/footer. m.