Hi,

I have a stash of nicely printed letterheads. My client uses Word to write letters, and therefore needs some guides that will show the best area to write, so it looks great when printed onto the letterheads.

Is it possible to import an image of the letterhead into Word that will act solely as a guide and won't be printed.



Ideally this would be a template the client could open and quickly use without having to import images, format etc....

Thanks

The ideal is to create a letter template that takes the letterhead into account. Do NOT adjust margins to do this other than the margins you want for the letter in general. There is a tremendous amount of thought and work that goes into setting up a good letter template, whether it is to be used with pre-printed letterhead or printed entirely on the computer. It is lucky for you that most of that work was done some time ago and is available on the web for free.

See the letterhead tutorials Tutorials especially the one on using textboxes and styles.
See also Setting Up Letter Templates

In setting these up, you might want to import a scanned image of the letterhead into the first-page header, set to be behind text (not wrapping). You will remove this when you finish.

See also:
Templates in Microsoft Word
Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word
Basic concepts of Microsoft Word: An introduction by Shauna Kelly

In answer to your basic question, yes, it is possible to have a scanned image in a document and have it not print. However, that makes the documents much larger than needed and disables printing of certain other elements in Word. It is not the way you want to go to do a letter template.