Can I create a two-page template?

[JWCrosby]

We have a template for our letterhead which prints our vision statement on
the left and our contact information in the footer. The vision statement is
a textbox linked to the header (which is blank) which allows it to hold its
verticle position. Margins are 1.8†left and 1†right. Layout is set to
Center. The template has today's date at the top.

If, however, you happen to write a 2-page letter, the second page should be
completely blank (no vision statement, no contact footer), with 1†margins on
the left and right, and layout set to top.

The current template is basically a 1-page template with the vision
statement and contact footer. I know how to manually make the adjustments if
I overflow into a second page, but is there a way to incorporate those
settings into the template so it’s automated?

In other words, I want to be able to create a new letter, based on our
letterhead template, that if I happen to go into a second page it will
automatically format with no footer and no vision statement, etc.

Possible?

Jerry

 

[Wendell A. Clark]

What I have done is hard code a page return into my template
Then format the header/footer(s) as I want them
and then delete the hard page break wheen it is added it will use the
versions you set up. ;-)


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[JWCrosby]

Thanks, Wendell,

I was following you until you wrote, "and then delete the hard page break
wheen it is added it will use the versions you set up." I must be
over-educated (BA, MA, MS) because it's confusing to me. I first hard code
the page break ("add" it I assume) then I "delete" it, then you say, "when it
is added..." I'm lost. Don't you have to have a section break in there
someplace in order to have different margins and layout positioning on the
second page?

Appreciate the dialogue.

Jerry

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day JW,

Create a two-page template by inserting a Page-Break at the bottom
of Page 1 - you will delete this later.

Set up the Header/Footer with "Different first page" (in File>Page Setup
Layout Tab).

Now set up the first page header/footer as it is now, and then delete any
header/footer content on Page 2. Close the Header and Footer.

Now delete the Page Break you inserted to return the Template to one
page - it should look exactly as it is now.

Save the Template. This setup will be 'saved' in the template.

When you use the Template for a single page, it will look as it does now.

If you insert a Page Break at the end of the first page, page two will have
the (empty) header and footer you previously set up.

 

[Wendell A. Clark]

Once you set the basic two pages up as you want them -- then delete the
second page -- the header and footers you set up will be intatc and usable
as you specified when the page is readded bu the user ;-)

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

On the Headers and Footers Toolbar, click on the Page Setup button (the one
that looks like an open book) and on the layout tab, check the Different
First Page box. This will give you a First Page Header pane in which you
should insert your text box. Such a header only appears on the first page
of the document.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP