Hello. I have created a letterhead design in Photoshop and want to convert it to word so it can be edited to include text when drafting letters. I watched some videos and struggling a bit. I was able to get the design imported to Word by inserting a picture, then changing the margins to 0 and paper size to A4 and using wrap text as behind text.



Now I am not able to have the cursor for text start in the middle of the document. The anchor is set to the top left. I tried moving but doesn't allow me to do so. Can i get some help please? Thank you.

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Place your picture in the first-page Header of the document.

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Would that mean breaking up the letterhead and putting the top portion in header, and bottom in footer sections? I tried putting the whole thing in header and it shows the footer empty. Not sure if that will cause any issues?

So long as your picture is set to be behind text, there should be no problem putting the whole thing in. Do look at the linked articles/tutorial though.

What Charles described is exactly the way we do our letterhead. I have it sized to precisely 8.5 x 11 inches (US letter size), and I see your standard is A4 size.

I selected your image, cut it to the clipboard, then inserted a header and pasted it into the header. Because you had set your margins to zero, I couldn't click into the header automatically. Presuming it's already the right size for your page, from there you'll want to right-click the letterhead image, choose Size and Position, and I generally set my alignment to Centered relative to Page, both horizontal and vertical. I deselect Move object with text in case anything else gets typed in the header or footer.

At that point, before you close the header/footer, I'd keep that image selected and click on the Insert ribbon and find the Quick Parts button about 2/3 of the way to the right. Choose Save Selection to Quick Parts Gallery, and when that window pops up, change the Gallery from Quick Parts to Headers, give it a name, and then you can insert that as a first-page header with just a click or two, centered and the right size from the Insert/Header button.

I changed your margin in the attached, because the margin affects the text on the page, not that background letterhead image.

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