turning a letterhead design into a Word template

[stevestrauch]

Somebody help -

I thought this was gonna be easy....

I have a letterhead design (built in Illustrator) I made for a client.  He would like to have the same design available to use in Microsoft Word to use as a template.  This has proven to be harder than I thought...  Has anyone tried this, and how on earth can this be done?!

I've tried importing images into Word itself - fail.  I've seen several videos of people doing this, but I don't think my version of Word will allow this (I have access to Word using another clients online MS product).

I've tried exporting from .ai to a .pdf, then export from Acrobat to a Word doc - fail.

I'm at a lose...

Any help would be appreciated.

[Monika Gause]

Build the letterhead in Word using its tools.

For the graphic you might want to use PNG. 

[Kurt Gold]

> "I've tried exporting from .ai to a .pdf, then export from Acrobat to a Word doc - fail."

In my experience Acrobat is able to do pretty good conversions to .doc.

Can you perhaps share the .pdf file you are using in this case?

[stevestrauch]

Yes, I will attach.  Here's the crazy thing: the first PDF I created via Illustrator using the vector data. The converted .doc file collapsed the clients logo into one pile of characters - fail.  The work around was to take a high res jpg and make that into pdf, good and stable.  Here's the crazy one - the converted .doc file reinterpreted the font off the jpg and replaced it with something different.  WHAT?!?   I've attached both the pdf and the .doc (for your own giggles)

[Kurt Gold]

Well, that's just an Acrobat setting when you export to .doc. You can choose to process OCR or you can turn that option off.