Letterheads

[Hobo]

Congratulations on a WP that has never let me down. The UK spellchecker and the auto back-up sold it to me (I am a registered user). It has many features that I will never discover, let alone use! I am the sort of person who, rather than the dreaded "context sensitive help", would like a 600 page user manual that I could print out, read in my armchair and annotate. Still, I suppose that I'm in my dotage and someone's got to save the trees. I am sure the answer to my question is in the fragmented Help somewhere. I have looked but the terminology obscured the meaning. Could anyone tell me simply how to overcome this problem:-

I have made a document that is a letterhead. I would like to be able to open this document and start typing away in an 11 point font (the letterhead is bigger, bold and italicised). The letterhead should appear, naturally enough, at the top of first page but no others. Ideally there would also be a "footnote" on the first page only (containing a registered office address) that would not be pushed down the document as I type.

I have tried headers and footers, but have real trouble in forbidding these from opening up on subsequent pages.

At present I have the letterhead set up as a document with a continuous section break after it, having stuck the r/o address at the very top rather than the preferred bottom location. The drawback here is of course that (the letterhead font being different) I have to manually reset it for the body of the document every time. Also, though I am not sure why, the letterhead pops up on every page so I have, for printing purposes, to cut and paste every page other than the first to a new document. I can then forget such refinements as pagination! Typing my letter into a separate new document and then pasting it to the "letterhead" document produces exactly the same problem.

I suspect that some basic characteristic of Atlantis (Templates, Styles?) has passed me by. How much simpler things were in Wordstar, where I had my letterhead surrounded in a nice little box and it knew its place! Can anyone explain to me in words of little more than one syllable how to achieve my objective?

Many thanks.

[admin]

Things are not so complex. You actually do not even need multiple sections in your document. If you create your document from a scratch, just choose “File | Page Settings” and check the “Different first page” box on the “Layout” tab. In this way, the first page of the document’s only section would display different headers than other pages. Then choose “View | Header & Footer”, and place your letterhead in the header of the first page, and the registered address in the footer of the first page.

Please see the attached sample document.

[Hobo]

Thank you for that - really helpful, can't think how I missed it!