Anytime I want it I can go and say File, New and then I can choose from My Templates, at the bottom, Letterhead and I can start off with a new document already to go with my letterhead here at the top and I can just type and it is easy to create these new documents. I've got this sample document still here. I can choose File and then Save As Template and then let's choose Add it to the Template Chooser. So once you've got that going, I can erase all that here so it is ready to go as a fresh new document. Since you're setting this as a template it is a convenient way to have you start off with the font and style that you want rather than having to change it each time you create a new document. Do that for all the different styles in here if you like or just the ones you want to use. Like change the Font, the Size, and all that. Maybe change that to whatever it is that you want to use. Which is how a lot of people will want their letterhead to appear.īefore saving this as a template another thing you may want to do is select the text here. There's nothing to make it appear on the second page or anything like that. If I were to type a lot of something, I'll just Copy and Paste here, you could see that the second page won't have the letterhead there because it is just an element sitting here that happens to be sitting on the first page. See how the Body Text here is just below it because it is getting pushed down and I can type something and then I can write the rest of my document. So the entire thing will just stay right there. Then I'm going to set Format Object Placement to Stay On Page. It's a little harder to accidentally grab a piece there and change. Now for good measure I'm going to select it all again and I'm going to go to Arrange and Group It so now it is just one element here that can easily move around. Just something there that will create the space that will push down any text so it starts underneath the letterhead. If you don't have a background you can always just create one that is pure white or has no color at all. So that means that the text of the body here will actually get pushed down by the background here but not by any of these other elements. But since I have this box here that kind of is the background for the whole thing I'm going to set the Text Wrap for that to Automatic. So basically that there is no wrapping around any of these. I'm going to set the Text Wrap from everything to Nothing. Go to Format, Arrange and I've got a lot of conflicting text wrap in here with all these elements. An easy way to do that is create a box around here like this. Then I'm going to select all these elements. Recreate a letterhead that you already are using or create a new one that fits the style of whatever it is you do. Putting it here and maybe it represents some kind of logo or something. We're just going to use a shape here and maybe go with a little tree like that. For a type of graphic you can bring in an image or something. Also change that to that font and position it like that. Let's create another textbox and put something like an address and maybe I'll stick that over here on the right like that. Shrink this textbox a bit like that and stick it right here in the middle. Maybe set the font to something that we like to use. This will be like the Title so put something like this. What I'm going to do is then set that color to something else. Let's create a box and cover that whole area with the box there. Let's create another line here and let's put that at some point below the first. This is just going to be an idea for kind of a sample template. Now I'm going to Shape and I'm going to add a line and put that line here at the top. Now I can see the Body Text and the regular margins and the Header and the Footer and all of that. To start with I'm going to go to View and then Show Layout. Let's create a simple letterhead using different elements in Pages. We're going to use this to create a template with a letterhead in it. So let's start by creating a blank document. This usually involves having some sort of graphics or information at the top of either every page of your document or the first page of your document and being able to easily start a new document and have that letterhead already in place. Now I often get asked about creating letterhead in Pages. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's look at some different techniques you can use to create a letterhead template in Pages. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Techniques for Creating Letterhead Templates in Mac Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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