Chris,
The best way to do it is via headers.
(What we'll do is create a template, then create a "sample" document that
you'll always have blank for future use -- or at least free of changeable
content -- and finally one you'll modify by adding content.)
Open a new blank document. Keep hitting the Return key until the last
paragraph mark is on the second page.
Make the first page different from the others by choosing Format menu ->
Document -> "Layout" tab -> tick "Different first page -> OK.
View menu -> Header and footer. Put the insertion point in the first page
header. [I'm assuming the text box is directly to the right of the graphic.]
Create a two-cell table (no visible borders), paste in your graphic and the
text box and adjust the cell sizes to suit. Select and copy.
On the Header and Footer toolbar, click the "Show next" button to go to the
header for the 2nd and subsequent pages. Paste. Delete the graphic from the
left hand table cell.
[The file size of each letter created this way may be large because of the
graphic; you may prefer instead to have a link to a graphic in the same
folder.]
Delete all the surplus paragraph marks. Save the document to form the basis
for your first letter, giving it a title like "[subject] sample", then do a
Save as -> to the right of "Format", pop down to "Document template" ->
navigate to the Office folder and save it into the "My templates" folder.
Next attach the document to the template: go back to the "[subject] sample"
you saved first and choose Tools menu -> Templates and Add-ins -> click the
"Attach" button -> navigate to the template. Whenever you modify the styles
you use in the document, click "Add to template". If you forget, you can
always choose Tools menu -> Templates and Add-ins -> click "Automatically
update document styles".
Now do a Save As for *that* document (or key Command-d in the Finder to
duplicate it). This is the first document you'll modify by adding content.
-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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