Family-business letterhead in Word for board letters
Convert the family business’s PDF letterhead into a Word template for board and shareholder letters — the mark fixed, the body yours.
The family business writes letters too
A family office rarely sends correspondence under a single name. The trust has its letterhead, the foundation has its own, the principal has a personal monogram — and the operating family business has a letterhead distinct from all of them.
Board letters, the annual letter to family shareholders, governance notices, letters to long-standing partners and bankers — these go out on the family-business letterhead, and they are read by people who notice whether an enterprise is run with care.
Like the rest of the office’s stationery, the business letterhead almost always exists only as a PDF — engraved or designed years ago, kept by whoever administers the office. A board letter cannot be typed onto a PDF. So it is rebuilt in Word each time, the mark approximated, the layout redone — and the one piece of correspondence where the family most wants to look composed becomes another small formatting job.
A Word letterhead for board and shareholder letters
Letterhead Lab converts the family business’s PDF letterhead into a Microsoft Word file with the artwork locked into the header and footer and a clean body to write in. Whoever administers the family office converts the PDF once and keeps the result with the office’s other templates.
After that, a board letter or a shareholder letter starts from the right file: open the template, write, save it as a new document. The letterhead is already correct — the same mark, in the same place, every time — so successive years of family-business correspondence look as though they come from one steady hand, which for a family enterprise is much of the point.
Because the artwork sits in Word’s header and footer, it repeats on the later pages of a long annual letter and cannot be disturbed while the body is edited. The Multi-page bundle converts the office’s several letterheads — business, trust, foundation — in one pass, each as its own Word file, and adds .dotx templates so no master is overwritten. Convert the business letterhead once, and every board and shareholder letter the family sends carries it.
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Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the trust or foundation letterhead?
- Each is its own letterhead and becomes its own Word file. The family business, the trust, and the foundation usually carry distinct marks; converting them separately keeps each piece of correspondence on the right one. The Multi-page bundle converts several in a single pass.
- Can a long annual letter to shareholders stay on the letterhead?
- Yes. The artwork repeats on every page automatically. For a multi-page annual letter, the Multi-page bundle adds a lighter continuation header for the pages after the first.
- Will an engraved or embossed business mark survive the conversion?
- Yes. The mark is kept as a high-resolution image in Word's header, not redrawn — it looks exactly as the engraver or designer produced it.
- Does the family business's letterhead PDF leave our office?
- No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The PDF is never uploaded to our servers; only Stripe handles the email and payment.
- What does it cost?
- $39 for one letterhead, or $79 for the Multi-page bundle — up to ten letterheads, which suits a family office converting its business, trust, and foundation marks together, plus .dotx templates and continuation headers.
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