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| Thread ID: 109137 | 2010-04-26 02:57:00 | MS Word - help with creating unusual template (dot) file | cpg (8333) | Press F1 |
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| 879989 | 2010-04-26 02:57:00 | Our business letterhead stationary paper has a 5cm banner along the top, a 4cm banner down the left margin, and a 5cm x 5 cm logo in the bottom right corner. Can I create a MS Word template (dot) document so when entering text it will fit within these unusual margins? Without the logo in the lower right corner it's easy to accomplish, but its there now, and we are stuck with it and that is the real problem - we don't want to enter text towards the bottoms of the page and have it overtype the logo. I tried creating a text box, with a second much smaller linked text box alongside the logo, but when I print the document there is a border line printed around each of the text box. Is there a way to remove the border during printing? Are there any other solutions? Thanks for any advice offered. |
cpg (8333) | ||
| 879990 | 2010-04-26 03:18:00 | So why not just adjust the page margins under Page Setup in so that text is always within those boundaries? | pctek (84) | ||
| 879991 | 2010-04-26 05:08:00 | What pctek said. I have several templates (.dot) that I have been using for years for both my and clients' stationery. Set up a .dot with the correct page margins so that your printer will not print on those parts of the paper where the logos etc live. With yours, I would set up the .dot with a top margin of 6.5cm (to allow 1.5 cm before your text starts), a bottom margin ditto, and a left hand margin of 5.5cm. As you can see, it won't leave much space for your actual text - personally I think your firm has too much gubbage on its letterhead, but you don't want to know my personal taste on that!. Save the template as Letterhead.dot or something, and when you open a new document in that template you will just be able to type your text inside those margins. Load the printer with your stationery, and Bob will be thine Uncle (or Aunt as the case may be). |
John H (8) | ||
| 879992 | 2010-04-26 05:26:00 | pctek - the problem with your suggestion is that it will leave a blank unusable space to the left of the logo. We want to be able to enter lines of text in the space to the left of the logo which is situated in the lower right corner. I've uploaded a sample of what I mean here: img683.yfrog.com |
cpg (8333) | ||
| 879993 | 2010-04-26 06:51:00 | I tried creating a text box, with a second much smaller linked text box alongside the logo, but when I print the document there is a border line printed around each of the text box. Is there a way to remove the border during printing?You can make the text box frame invisible. Right-click on the text box frame and select "format text box". Then select "none" for line colour. Using a text box can look weird as there won't be the natural flow of text from the general body to the text box content. I would show who ever approved the design of the paper the issue and see if future print runs can have a smaller bottom corner logo so you don't have this problem. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 879994 | 2010-04-26 07:50:00 | Thanks so much Jen, your suggestion has solved the problem completely! Yes, there is an issue with text flowing from the general body to the text box, although by having two linked text boxes the problems is reduced a little. I am also grateful to pctek and John H for taking the time to also offer advice. Thanks again everyone. Oh, and I'll be discussing the problem this letterhead poses for everyone using it. |
cpg (8333) | ||
| 879995 | 2010-04-26 11:04:00 | Rather than using a text box, I would use a simple rectangle shape (insert shape, and chose the rectangle) . Stretch it to the size you need . Set the text wrapping to square . Test it on the printer with some text, and adjust it until it's wrapping the way you need it to, then make the border and fill "none" so that the rectangle is invisible . That should get around the text flow issue, I think . A bonus trick to quickly generate nonsense text in Word for your testing is to type =lorem() and hit enter . You get a couple of paragraphs of meaningless text . cheers W |
waldok (15185) | ||
| 879996 | 2010-04-26 21:23:00 | +1 for waldok's suggestion. You can anchor the blank rectangle in the footer, then you won't be able to inadvertently fiddle with it. Set the placement to bottom-right of the page & adjust the size as necessary to avoid your logo. The text box solution seems overly complicated to me. This way the page is just a normal page with a graphical element in the corner & you shouldn't have to worry about linking text boxes. With those there's a possibility of getting the cursor outside a text box & stuffing up the layout when text is entered. |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 879997 | 2010-04-27 05:28:00 | Slightly OT, but I'd never heard of that =lorem() trick. I know about lorem ipsum text, but not that generator. Are there any more fancy =(something or other) tricks? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 879998 | 2010-04-27 06:06:00 | Slightly OT, but I'd never heard of that =lorem() trick. I know about lorem ipsum text, but not that generator. Are there any more fancy =(something or other) tricks? Makes two of us Tony. I have just, in the past, held a key down to fill the page. |
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