As a graphic designer, I always design brand stationery elements in InDesign CS4. Often a two colour pantone printing job for my customer to match envelopes and cards, etc.

Now I've got a young engineering customer who doesn't want hard copies. He wants templates for his letterhead and contracts to be able to email. He uses MS Word. How best do I take an InDesign design and convert it to Word? (I hate the thought!)
I offered a PDF file he could print, but he can't do that on the road.

My design uses 2 Pantone colours; has two fonts he doesn't have; and a tiff graphic as a tint in the background that bleeds to the edge.

Anyone done this before? Will it look the same as my graphic?

We have had a few clients who want that. What I do is just export the top part of the letter head, usually just make a strip 8.5 wide and however thick from the top of the page to where the image would end, as a png file or jpeg then put that in Word. I repeat the same for the bottom. Cant remember what it is called, but its footer or something like that. What that leaves them with is a template they can type in, like a normal word document, but the header and footer has the letter head info and prints like its the letterhead with their text imprinting. Pantones wont matter as they will not match on any digital printer, and I dont think Word can handle pantones.

Once I have done that I just send them a few files, .DOC, .DOCX and .DOTX

Bleeds wont work unless they have a printer that can print bleeds.

Thanks Wonderings.
I'll give that a try.
I do have a graphic along the left edge that bleeds. I may have to redesign that.

Thanks Wonderings.
I'll give that a try.
I do have a graphic along the left edge that bleeds. I may have to redesign that.

If you give it with bleeds, it will just be cut off, or it will shrink to fit the page. Obviously better to design for no bleeds. There is a section for pro users ie people who make a living with their macs here, lots of useful info there and people who know when we dont know.

Mac Masters - ehMac.ca (http://www.ehmac.ca/mac-masters/)