Template with different header on first page

[David Kohn]

Using Office X

The hard drive was replace on my iMac and I lost all of my custom templates.
Now I'm having trouble figuring out how I made them in the first place.

Can someone tell me how to create a template for personal stationery where
my return address information is placed in the header, but that header is
only on the FIRST PAGE of the document and no others.

I can't figure this out, since when one opens a file to create a template
one is only working with the first page. Whatever it is, it is not very
obvious.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Using Office X

The hard drive was replace on my iMac and I lost all of my custom templates.
Now I'm having trouble figuring out how I made them in the first place.

Can someone tell me how to create a template for personal stationery where
my return address information is placed in the header, but that header is
only on the FIRST PAGE of the document and no others.

Format -> Document -> Layout ->Different First page
then you will get a chance to set a 'first page header' when you are on
page 1.
To make your template work, create another page and make sure that page
header is blank, or different. Then get rid of the page break and save
the template.

I use that technique to make templates for single and double-sided
work, with follow-on logos just where I want 'em and all the company
nonsense only on the front page. Beats the livin' b'jasus out of paying
for pre-printed stationery.

I can't figure this out, since when one opens a file to create a template
one is only working with the first page. Whatever it is, it is not very
obvious.

That is part of Word's rich tapestry.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

That is part of Word's rich tapestry.

True . Although David *could* have found the answer in less than a
minute by using Word's Help and searching for "header" or "create header".

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Elliott Roper]

True . Although David *could* have found the answer in less than a
minute by using Word's Help and searching for "header" or "create header".

Have you forgotten that it was you that told me that help was jammed
under my menu bar? (I couldn't close help once it was opened and never
knew there was a close button out of sight under the menu bar. It had
been doing that for over a year and I never knew it should have been
better)

Bug ridden pile of bloat. Strangely addictive. ;-)

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Have you forgotten that it was you that told me that help was jammed
under my menu bar? (I couldn't close help once it was opened and never
knew there was a close button out of sight under the menu bar. It had
been doing that for over a year and I never knew it should have been
better)

So did you have Help open straight for a year, or just never use it?
Because I keep picturing you with a Help window constantly in your way.

Bug ridden pile of bloat. Strangely addictive. ;-)

Actual chuckle (since LOL is overused).

Dayo

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Have you forgotten that it was you that told me that help was jammed
under my menu bar? (I couldn't close help once it was opened and never
knew there was a close button out of sight under the menu bar. It had
been doing that for over a year and I never knew it should have been
better)

That was Dayo, wasn't it?

Bug ridden pile of bloat. Strangely addictive. ;-)

But I'll second her chuckle ;-).

Beth

 

[Elliott Roper]

So did you have Help open straight for a year, or just never use it?
Because I keep picturing you with a Help window constantly in your way.

err... <embarrassed laugh> A bit of each. I'd delay consulting help
till T(hell) ->0. Then I had a cmd-w trick that sometimes worked. Other
times the cmd-w would try to operate on the document beneath and the
"do you want to save changes" dialog was invisible behind the help!!.

Quite honestly, it being no worse than many of the other dialog box
trees that infest the product, that I thought it was the proper
behaviour and did not complain or try to fix it, till you - or was it
Beth? - mentioned the green button one day.

Actual chuckle (since LOL is overused).

Anyone can use Word, as long as you set your expectations low enough.
It is the source of the 'strangely addictive'. Once or twice you get
something to work really neatly and the reward is out of all
proportion.

When I was a whippersnipper doing teacher training, there was a
fashionable pop psychologist called B F Skinner. He taught pigeons to
play table tennis. The learning process was called variable ratio
re-inforcement. Picture the software as a demented professor feeding
corn to a pigeon as a random consequence of the bird getting something
to work by pecking at stuff.

Just in case anyone recoils in horror at me being let loose on
children, I was a disaster of a (maths & science) teacher and gave up
as soon as I worked out the bond period.

 

[Elliott Roper]

That was Dayo, wasn't it?

Er, I should have checked. I remembered it was one of my two favourite
women in this newsgroup.

(Does that blarney get me off the hook?)

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Er, I should have checked. I remembered it was one of my two favourite
women in this newsgroup.

(Does that blarney get me off the hook?)

You bet ;-).

Beth