List of Partners vendors. Table of Contents Expand. Table of Contents. The Benefits of Using a Template. Available Microsoft Letter Templates. How to Download a Letter Template. Create Your Own Template. By Alison Doyle. Alison founded CareerToolBelt. Learn about our editorial policies. Updated on July 09, Using a template can help you ensure that you include all the necessary details in your letter.
Article Sources. All the page numbers there, plain or fancy, as building blocks and will replace any other content you have in the header or footer.
The only way you can insert just a page number in the header or footer without wiping out other content is to choose Current Position. You can use a CreateDate field to insert the date automatically. Be wary of using the Date and Time button on the Ribbon, as this inserts a Date field, which will update every time you open the document, and this is rarely what you want.
You may want to type in a placeholder and then replace it in the actual letter as needed. If you are using printed letterhead that begins 0.
In that case, set your header margin to 0. If you do this, you will need to increase the top margin to, say, 1. Another way to open this dialog is to use the dialog launcher the small arrow in the bottom right corner in the Page Setup group. But the easiest way to open it is to double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler. Figure 6. The Page Setup dialog. I acknowledged that this order of creation is unintuitive because it requires you to start with page 2.
Beginners are often skeptical about or confused by this. Or you may be more comfortable starting out with two pages of text so you can see how it will look with the headers and footers in place.
For this purpose you may want to insert some dummy text. But what if you need a larger left or right margin to accommodate letterhead elements at the side of the page? This is where you have to get really creative. The standard method of accomplishing this is a borderless 3 text box or frame in the margin, anchored to the header paragraph. In other words, while the insertion point is in the header pane, draw a text box or frame at the side of the page.
To insert a text box, select the Insert tab. Drag the mouse to draw a text box of approximately the needed size. Ribbon versions of Word have made it much more difficult to insert a frame though frames are superior for some uses. If you have the Developer tab enabled, you can find the Insert Frame button in the Legacy Forms tools under Legacy Tools in the Controls group, but to make it easy to use, you will need to add the button to the Quick Access Toolbar.
When you use the Insert Frame button, you will get a default frame of a set size, which you can drag to resize. The idea is to make the text box or frame overlap the document body area just enough to push the letter text out of the way of the printed letterhead.
This may require some trial and error. When you select a text box, the contextual Drawing Tools Format tab will be displayed. The Wrap Text dropdown in the Arrange group will allow you to change the wrapping style.
Click Position , then More Layout Options… to specify the exact position. You can drag the text box to the desired size, observing the measurements in the Size group or change them directly in the spin boxes.
You can create documents using these basic templates as they are, or you can modify them to better suit your needs. For more information about using built-in templates, refer to Choosing a Word Template. Some University departments have developed templates for campus-wide use. Some current templates include:. If you do not have access to these templates when using Word from campus computers, contact the LTS Help Desk ; helpdesk uwec.
Additional templates are also available on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire website for departments such as Accounts Payable and the Office of University Research.
If you have formatting or a layout that you use frequently in your work but that is not offered in Word's collection of preset templates, you can easily create a new template using your own formatting and settings.
The new template can then be saved with Word's other templates and accessed each time you want to use the custom format. The New Document dialog box appears. If you like the overall style of an existing template but would like to make a few changes, you can customize the template to meet your needs. To do this, you can either modify the original template file or create a new file closely based on the old template. The Open dialog box appears.
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