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Personal monogram letterhead template for Word

Personal stationery for Word: a boxed monogram, your name in a serif and your city in small tracked capitals. Nothing else on the page — address and telephone wait in the footer. For the letters that should not look like they came from an office. Free .dotx download in US Letter and A4.

Word document on a personal letterhead: a ringed monogram above a name, a personal letter typed beneath.
Personal · .dotx · US Letter + A4

What’s in the file

  • Monogram, name and city on page one; initials and page number on continuation pages
  • Footer with street address, telephone and email in 8pt
  • Sample personal letter in the body

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About this personal letterhead template

Personal stationery is for the letters that should not look as though they came from an office: a thank-you, a condolence, a reference, a letter to a school, a council or an old friend. This template keeps the top of the page almost empty — a boxed monogram, your name in a serif and your city in small tracked capitals.

The street address, telephone and email wait in the footer, set small. Page two carries only your initials and the page number, which is how printed personal stationery handles a continuation sheet.

Replace the initials, your name and the city, then the four parts of the footer. Monograms traditionally use the initial of the surname in the middle and larger; the boxed mark here keeps all initials the same size, which reads cleanly in Word and on screen.

More on who this suits: Personal letterhead in Word, from your own design.

How to use this letterhead template in Word

  1. Download the .dotx

    Pick US Letter or A4. A .dotx is Word’s template format: double-clicking it opens a fresh, untitled document based on the letterhead, so the master is never overwritten by accident.

  2. Put your name on it

    Double-click the header area at the top of page one, select the sample name, address and tagline, and type yours. The rule, spacing and page-two header follow automatically. Press Esc or double-click the body to get back to the letter.

  3. Save it where Word looks for templates

    To edit the master itself, open Word first and use File → Open on the .dotx. Save As with the .dotx type into Documents\Custom Office Templates (Windows) or the Templates folder Word offers on Mac, and it appears under File → New → Personal.

  4. Type the letter

    The body is a plain Normal style: Georgia 11pt, 1.15 line spacing, one-inch side margins. Replace the bracketed placeholders and the sample letter, and the letterhead stays put on every page.

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Frequently asked questions

What goes on a personal letterhead?
Your name and enough contact detail for a reply: usually a street address, and often a telephone number and email. A monogram or initials is optional but traditional. Job titles, logos and taglines belong on business letterhead, not personal stationery.
How should the initials in a monogram be ordered?
For a traditional three-letter monogram with the surname initial larger in the middle, the order is first, last, middle. With all letters the same size, as in this template, the order is simply first, middle, last. Type whichever two or three letters you prefer into the box.
Can I use my engraved personal stationery in Word instead?
Yes. If your stationer can send the design as a PDF, Letterhead Lab places it into Word's header and footer at full resolution, so letters you type match the stationery you write on by hand.
Is this Word letterhead template free?
Yes. Leave an email address and the download starts; the links are emailed to you too, with a 10% code for converting your own designed letterhead later. No account and no card. The same email unlocks all five templates.
Which versions of Word open the .dotx file?
Word 2013 and later on Windows and Mac, Word for the web and Word on iPad. It also opens in LibreOffice Writer and Google Docs, though Google Docs merges the first-page and continuation headers into one.

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