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A letter, official or otherwise, is visually beautified with a letterhead.
A letterhead is the decoration that goes at the top of the sheet of paper.
It commonly consists of an official name, address and other contact details.
In business letterheads, more embellishment comes in the form of a logo that occupies pride of place.
With the logo, a letterhead also becomes part of the branding process.
Beyond its visual appeal, letterheads can also be treated as legally binding documents.
Correspondence on paper imprinted with the official letterhead gets bona fide recognition by the rules of law and business.
Designing beautiful letterheads is important because it’s the first detail that catches our eye.
And a good printing house that will churn out reams of letterhead pads for office supplies.
The trusty Microsoft Word is one such alternative to design a neat professional looking letterhead.
it’s possible for you to also preserve your letterhead design as a template for reuse.
Step 1: What Is The Letterhead Going To Carry?
Jot down what your letterhead’s going to reflect and prepare the data.
ThePrint Layoutview shows exactly how your document will look when printed.
Also, from thePage Layouttab, set theSizeto A4 which is usually the standard letterhead size.
Click onMarginsand select an appropriate setting for your letterhead document.
select theInsert Tabon the Ribbon and selectHeader - Blank.
This creates the Header section and opens up theHeader & Footer Designtools tab.
you could be creative with fonts and symbols to dress up the text.
For instance, I have inserted Wingdings characters from theInsert - Symbolstab to separate the text information.
From theDesigntab, click onPictureto add an image or a logo to the header.
Choose a wrapping style other than" In Line with Text'.
Drag the image to the desired location and position it in the desired location.
you’re free to indent the text to the right using the CTRL+M shortcut key.
If you go too far across, press SHIFT+CTRL+M to correct it to the left.
TheDecrease/IncreaseIndent buttons on the Home tab do the same job.
you might further fine tune the image position from theAdvanced Layoutbox.
snag the image, right tap on the image and go toText Wrapping - More Layout Options.
Step 5: Close & Use
That’s it!
punch the close button to wrap up the edit view.
To return to the edit mode, you could double nudge the header area.
This is just a simple and quick way to create some customized stationery.
Professional letterheads are of course, designed in page layout software.
