I have a two page letter being sent out. The first page is on my company's letterhead, the second is not. I need a 1.6" top margin on odd pages and a 1" top margin on even pages. The side margins and the bottom margins are the same for all pages.



I am fully aware that I can set different margins page-by-page using "This point forward". I am not looking to spend that much time. I am looking for something that affects the whole document in one fell swoop.

Everything I have found posted assumes the only reason someone would need different margins is for a booklet and recommends mirrored margins. That is not what this is.

So, to summarize:
All odd pages-1.6" top margin.
All even pages-1.0" top margin.
Done in one single series of steps, not manually setting different things page by page.

Thanks for your help!

This is not alternating; it is different first page header.
How can I get a different header/footer on the second page?
Setting Up Letter Templates - Ribbon

Do NOT mess with the margins.

You can have different even and odd settings as well. This is a document-wide setting.
Different Even and Odd Header/Footer

If you are producing multiple letters to different people in one document, look into using the Different First Page setting in a Mail Merge.

Charles, it is a document that has already been created with multiple letters to multiple people. There is no mail merge to do or redo at this point. Also, I don't have headers or footers in this document, so I am not sure why that was thrown out there.

I wasn't sure I needed to state this, but apparently it is clear that I do. I am not interested in alternatives that would involve redoing the document. I am also not interested in any answers based on assumptions people have formed that go beyond what I initially stated. Once again, I would like to know how to make this happen:

All odd pages-1.6" top margin.
All even pages-1.0" top margin.
Done in one single series of steps, not manually setting different things page by page.

The quite reasonable explanation is that what you're after is something that is typically required for mailmerge output formatting.
I would suggest a LOT more consideration on your part for those trying to help you.

Kindly read your first post:
Any reasonable person you think you meant a single letter with a letterhead page. Do you see any mention there of:
I don't. So how do you expect anyone to know quite what you're after when you omit essential details?

Charles has already pointed you in the right direction: use a 'different odd and even' page layout - in the very post whose advice you decry.

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Thank you for your commentary macropod, I am sure that will be very helpful to me...after I get an answer to how to deal with the situation I have. Until then, its really just a waste of space. Do you have anything useful to post, or did you really just feel like it was important that I know your opinions of me?

Kindly read and apply the advice you've already been given. Thread closed.

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