turning a letterhead design into a Word template

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September 26, 2023
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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.

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Kurt Gold

Community Expert

> "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?

S

stevestrauchAuthor

Inspiring

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)

Elan_Letterhead.docx

Elan_Letterhead_Final_copy.pdf