How to create a letter template

Hi,

I'd like to create my own template for letters that are sent in envelopes with transparent address windows. The cover page will have text boxes at the proper places for the mailing address, for the sender address, and so on.

My problem is the main text body of the letter. I'd like pages to automatically append pages if a page is full. Of course, the text should begin close to the top of the page on all pages but the first. However, I can't find a way that allows me to set a different top margins for the first page than the remaining pages. Is there any way to do this?

Basically, I am trying to achieve the same thing as in the templates provided by Apple. If you create a new letter from one of those templates, you will notice that the text body has a different top margin on the first page than on remaining pages.

Thanks for your help.

Dirk

Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Aug 25, 2007 11:32 AM

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Oct 24, 2007 6:54 AM in response to dittert

dittert,

There must be something about what you want that I'm not understanding. It sounds like you want to set up your letter template so that you have text boxes at the top of page 1. Then, if the letter wraps to page 2, you want the text near the top of the page. What I'm not understanding is this: why do you need different margin settings for pages 1 and 2?

I really want to help, so any clear and specific information you can provide would be useful.

-Dennis

Oct 24, 2007 10:30 AM in response to dittert

Lets get a bit more specific. Please let us know what template your talking about so we can see an example of hat you want. If your dealing with the Layout type of pages document (v. word processor). then it might just be that the text box is located further down on Page 1 than on page 2, giving the visual affect of page 2 having different margins.

Please get back to us and tell us which one your looking at ,
Jason

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