Monday, September 3, 2018

Microsoft Word Letterhead Template - Those Pesky Background Images!

A co-worker asked for help in converting some PDF files to Word. No problem, I have a program for that. I figured one and done...except that the resulting Word files looked horrible! The original author had used multiple graphics, backgrounds and fonts. For something like this I would a different program to recreate the document to its original form but the co-worker wanted to use Word.

After considerable research I opted to strip out and simplify the graphics to one background and create a Word Template so the background could be used for multiple documents.

99Designs, hands down, had the best step-by-step instructions to create the template, insert the image, size and center it - https://99designs.com/blog/design-tutorials/tutorial-microsoft-word-letterhead-template/, something I was not able to do just by inserting the image into the background of the document itself.