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How to create a MS Word Template with custom designs in the background?
My company is sending out a monthly newsletter and I want to create a custom MS Word template for them to use.
Ideally, I'd like to make a some background designs in Photoshop or Illustrator and then turn that into a template my coworkers can pull up in Word and start typing their newsletter as usual. How do I go about this? Thanks! |
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Which aspect(s) do you need hep with? Are your background designs intended to be used as a watermark on all pages, or just on particular pages?
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Well after the design is created (I assume I'll have to match the measurements of the design to an actual letter size paper), how do I turn it into a template?
There is a design for the first page and last page on the template. An pages inbetween stay blank. Not sure what watermark means. |
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To get you started with template creation, see: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm
A watermark is a background image that can appear on all pages. If you only want it to appear on the first page, configure your document with a 'different first page' layout before adding the watermark (for which, see Page Layout|Page Background>Watermark). You can achieve much the same result by accessing the header and using Insert|Picture. A different last page will require a 'Next Page' Section break before it. If you create that after inserting the watermark, the last page will inherit it; otherwise, if you unlink the Section header from the previous Section, the last page can have its own watermark. As for turning a document into a template, you do that via 'Save As' and making the 'type' a template (probably in the dotx format, though you should use a dot format if your colleages using it don't have Office 2007 or later).
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