Steps to Make a Letterhead in MS Word

How to Make a Letterhead 1 Sketch the layout of your letterhead stationary design on a piece of plain white paper. ·         Make sure to include a spot for your company's logo, name, address and any other contact information. ·         You may also want to include the tag line for your company, if you have one. Tag lines are recommended for company names that do not indicate the company's main product or service. ·         "Acme Architecture and Design" does not need a tag line, whereas "Acme Group" could benefit from a tag line like "Classic Architecture in the Modern World." ·         For this example, we will place the contact information in the upper left corner, the logo in the upper right corner and we will center our tag line in the footer at the bottom of the page. 2 Launch Microsoft Word. ·         PC users can use the Quick Launch task bar, a desktop icon or simply find Word in the list of installed programs under the Start menu. ·         Mac users can locate the program in the Finder. 3 Begin the header by clicking the arrow below the Header commands on the Insert tab. ·         Choose "Edit header" at the bottom of the dropdown list. 4 Type the company's name, address, phone number, fax number, website and general inquiry email address. ·         Make a hard return by pressing the Enter key after each section to make the elements of your letterhead stack. ·         You can leave out the website address if it is incorporated into your logo. ·         Adjust the fonts, colors and sizes of the text for each element. Your company name should be ​ approximately 2 points larger than the address and may be in a different font and color to coordinate with the logo for the letterhead. The phone, fax and email address entries should be 2 points smaller than the address, but keep the same font. 5 Add your logo to the header. ·         Click "Picture" on the insert tab. ·         Browse to the digital copy of your logo, select the .jpg, .bmp or .png file and click the Insert button.   6 Adjust the size of your logo. ·         Hover you cursor over one corner of the logo. Your pointer should change to a Diagonal Resize cursor. Click and drag the corner of the image to make it smaller or larger. ·         Your logo should be sized to balance the text of your contact information in the upper left corner of the header. 7 Position your logo in the upper left corner by clicking the logo to select the image and then clicking and dragging it into place. 8Draw a solid line from the left margin to the right across the bottom of the header. ·         Click the Shapes dropdown arrow in the Insert tab and choose the first line option in the Lines section. Click and drag to draw the line. ·         Right-click on the line and adjust the color and weight of the line to coordinate with your logo using the Format Autoshapes option. Select the Center radio button on the Layout tab. ·         Right-click on the line again and create a copy of it. Paste the copy anywhere into the document. 9Insert your tag line in the footer. ·         Click the dropdown box under the Footer option in the Insert tab. ·         Click the centered text option in the paragraph section of the Home tab. ·         Type the tagline. Adjust the font and size. Taglines are often in italic type and may be in title case, where the first letter of every major word is capitalized. 10 Finish your letterhead in Word by moving the copied solid line into the Footer section. ·         Click on the copied line and drag it into the Footer section above the tagline. Use the Format Autoshape options dialog box again and choose the Center radio button on the Layout tab. 11 Press the Esc key to close the Header and Footer section. View your letterhead stationary in full scree​n mode or print a copy for review. 12 Save your letterhead to your hard drive. When creating a new document on this letterhead, open the letterhead file and click "Save as" under the Office Windows logo button.   EditTips You can easily create a matching envelope. Click to highlight your company name and address text and select Copy. Choose the Envelopes button on the Mailings tab and insert your copied text into the return address section. Edit your fonts, sizes and colors to match the letterhead. EditWarnings Do not resize your logo by clicking and dragging on either the vertical or horizontal edges. This will skew the look of your logo instead of simply resizing it. EditThings You'll Need Computer Microsoft Word Graphic image of company logo ...(More..)