Use your own stationery in Microsoft Word

Use your own stationery in Microsoft Word


With Microsoft Word from version 2000 onwards, any documents can be provided with writing paper, which is located behind the text and is also printed.
This means that you are independent of special printers, which in the past could load letterheads as files into a separate memory in order to put them on the paper together with the actual document if required.


The advantage of such letterheads is obvious.
You are neither dependent on special printers nor on expensive printed products, and when you change the design, boxes of unused letterhead are not immediately wasted. First, we create a new template so that on the one hand we don't have to repeat all the steps for each letter, but rather to be able to easily add our stationery to documents, on the other hand the standard Word template (normal.dot) should remain untouched. After all, we don't just want to be able to print documents with our stationery ...

 

 

 

 

 
In the menu ??File"do we click ??New"to get in the advanced Open file dialog to get.

 

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In the dialog box we choose ??Blank document"as well as bottom right ??Vorlage" instead of ??Documents"and confirm with ??OK".

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It is a good idea to set up the stationery so that it cannot be accidentally moved when you write normally.
That's why we "hide" it in the header.
In the newly created document template, we immediately switch to the ??Header / footer"(View menu >> Header / Footer).

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With the cursor positioned in the header, we insert the desired graphic using
Menu Insert >> Graphic >> From File

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Here you can select any graphic format that is supported by Word.
If the option ??Link to file"is selected, you can later change the background simply by saving a new graphic under the same name instead of the old one. In this case, however, the graphic file must not be moved to the hard disk afterwards. Alternatively, you can also use the ?? option.Insert"If you select", the graphic will be embedded in the document template and all documents created from it. This can lead to Word files that are unwieldy, which is why the link method is to be preferred.
 

Now the graphic is already displayed in the header, but has to be formatted accordingly. To do this, we select the graphic and click on it with the right mouse button. In the context menu we choose ??Format graphic... ".
On the ?? tablayout"must now ??Behind the text"must be selected. On the ??BILD"we choose in the section ??Image control"as color ??Watermark" the end.
Of course, we can also correct the brightness and contrast here.
On the map ??Colors and lines" should ??no colour" and ??no line"must be selected. After the ??OK"the picture becomes semi-transparent.

If we selected the ?? options when setting up the page.Degrees / degrees different" respectively. ??First page different"have been activated, we may have to link or insert the graphic on several pages, or the option ??like the previous oneUse "from the header menu.

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As long as the graphic is selected, it can be moved over the entire page. With the left mouse button pressed, we position the graphic on the sheet as we want it to be. With the help of the small black square manipulation points that are distributed around the image, we can influence its size. As soon as we are satisfied, we leave by clicking on ??Close" the Header / Footer View. We can always go back there later and make changes.

Finally, we save the new template under a meaningful name (e.g. private letterhead) and the file name extension .dowry in the standard folder for file templates, normally this is C: \ Documents and Settings \ [... User ...] \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Templates
or in one of its sub-folders and close the document.

Now let's create a new document (this time with the selection "Documents"and not" template ") and use our new stationery template from the selection window of the open dialog, in which it should be available in the meantime, so we can start writing on our letterhead immediately without using the stationery behind it to get into the fence:

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Of course, using this method, several small graphics (logos and graphic elements) as well as text that make up the letterhead can be integrated without the ensemble being constantly confused during daily work. You can use the setting ??Watermark"(see above) can be omitted if the image elements are arranged outside of the later text. There is also the option of placing a complete (scanned) letterhead behind it, or any other background for a different printing unit, as in our example.
 
 
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