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Old 02-07-2015, 09:32 AM
Athalwolf Athalwolf is offline Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Windows 7 32bit Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Office 2013
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Hello everyone,

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

I purchased Word 2013 and created two documents. It was the first time using Word and it took about a day and I'm sure I did it wrong even though they look fine.

One is for quoting new jobs and the other is for billing. I was hoping that they would both serve as templates.

At the top I have the company logo and contact info and also a space for the job address (labelled address) and one for the date. The company contact info is across from the job site address.

Typically I print a bunch and write the job information in with pen and ink when I am quoting a job or handing the folks the bill. I provide a home service.

I now have a couple of out of province customers that I do work for here and I need to email them the bills and herein lies my problem.

When I attempt to type in the job address information using Word it causes the company contact text to move to the right. I'm sure I created the documents wrong and I would like to learn how to remake them correctly.

I really just want all the text and company logo and contact info to freeze on the page so I can use it as a template. I attempted to save both documents as templates but the text still moves when I try to type new info onto the page.

Is there a simple way to resolve this or perhaps a good video to guide me through the process if I have to resort to recreating them from scratch.

Thank you for any thoughts or comments,

Athalwolf.

Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 02-07-2015 at 10:42 PM. Reason: changed title to give more info
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Old 02-07-2015, 10:35 PM
Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Windows 7 64bit Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Office 2010 32bit
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Often people use Tables when they want to type text without having other things move around.

Another solution used with letterheads is to place fixed information in the first-page header and the information to be typed in the body of the document. This makes it marginally less likely that the letterhead will be messed up.

Take a look at the Tutorials on my downloads page. Another good resource on this is Setting Up Letter Templates.

Before you spend much time with Word, I would urge you to look at Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly and the pages that follow from it. Learn about Styles and Templates. The time you spend on this should be recovered in your first month if not the first week.

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Old 02-08-2015, 09:08 AM
Athalwolf Athalwolf is offline Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Windows 7 32bit Inexperienced user having dificulty adding text to document I created. Fixed text moves around. Office 2013
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Thank you for responding. I will gladly use all the information you posted.

I will start with Shauna's basic concepts. Again let me say I am most grateful for your assistance.
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