letterhead and follower template

External Since: May 25, 2008 Posts: 2

I am trying to set up a letterhead and follower template in Word 2003.

I have a watermark which is common to both pages, but the header and footer
vary. The problem is not the change in the header and footer (I know that
creating a section break will allow me to create a page which does not have
to follow the format of the previous page)...the problem is that when you get
to the bottom of the second page and keep typing, the new (third page) is a
copy of the first page rather than the second.

Another problem seems to be that if you get to the bottom of the first page
and you do not need to go on to the second page - if you hit delete button to
remove the second page all of the formatting on the first page is lost.

I suspect both problems have to do with the way the template is set up -
please help!

External Since: Jul 04, 2006 Posts: 8122

You need to setup a different first page header, not different odd/even
pages.
You probably don't need a section break.
The watermark will have to go in both the first and subsequent page headers.
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

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nowiamhere wrote:
> I am trying to set up a letterhead and follower template in Word 2003.
>
> I have a watermark which is common to both pages, but the header and
> footer vary. The problem is not the change in the header and footer
> (I know that creating a section break will allow me to create a page
> which does not have to follow the format of the previous page)...the
> problem is that when you get to the bottom of the second page and
> keep typing, the new (third page) is a copy of the first page rather
> than the second.
>
> Another problem seems to be that if you get to the bottom of the
> first page and you do not need to go on to the second page - if you
> hit delete button to remove the second page all of the formatting on
> the first page is lost.
>
> I suspect both problems have to do with the way the template is set
> up - please help!