Letterhead Problem

[Laura]

I have been asked to create a letterhead template in Word (2004) that looks
just like our printed letterhead when you sent it as an email attachment, and
I have run into several problems:

1. When I send the template to someone on a PC (I am on a Mac) the headers
and footers don't appear at all. (even in Page Layout view)

2. On my computer, I cannot figure out how to keep the headers and footers
from appearing greyed-out.

3. When I tried to get around the problem of the greyed-out headers and
footers by inserting them as images absolutely positioned at the top and the
bottom of the page, I could not find a way to keep the text from pushing the
footer image onto the next page ( I had hoped having the image set to
text-wrap and told not to move with the text would fix this)

4. I tried to insert a .tif of our letterhead as a watermark, but even
though I unchecked "washout" it still appears washed out.

5. I tried to insert a .tif of our letterhead as a background image, but it
only appears in the Online Layout view.

I am fresh out of ideas! Any advice anyone can give me on how to approach
this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you want to send something that looks just like a printed letter, you
will need to send it as a PDF.

 

[Laura]

Hi Suzanne,

Thanks for your help! That does answer a lot of my question. Does the Mac-PC
issue sound familiar to you? Do you think I will need to recreate the
letterhead on someone's PC, or is there something I can do to fix it?

Thanks,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you're encountering is by design. When you're editing the
header/footer, the document body is dimmed and vice versa. There is no way
that you can send a Word document that will look like the printed page,
which is why I suggested a PDF.

 

[Laura]

When my coworker tries to open the template on his PC, the headers and footer
are actually gone, not just dim. Have you heard of anything like that?

 

[Jay Freedman]

When my coworker tries to open the template on his PC, the headers
and footer are actually gone, not just dim. Have you heard of
anything like that?

Probably your coworker has white space hidden.
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm

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[Laura]

You were right!! Thank you both.
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Laura

Probably your coworker has white space hidden.
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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