Creating Cover Pages with Microsoft Word

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Custom corporate and personal cover pages can be created in Word or WordPad by:

Castelle strongly recommends that you use one of the .doc template files provided in the Cover Page Templates folder as a basis for your custom cover page template. This is the more convenient, efficient option of the two mentioned above, and is the one covered in the next section. See Creating a Cover Page Template from a Blank Word Document for details on creating a Cover Page from a blank document.

Customizing a Cover Page Template

To use the one of the existing WordPad Templates to create a new custom cover page for your users, follow these steps:

To become available for your network users, the new customized cover page template must now be added to the Corporate Cover Pages folder under the Administration branch of FaxPress Plus. You must be logged in as Administratoror as a user with Administrator privileges.

Publishing a Corporate Cover Page

To make a new, customized cover page template available as a corporate cover page by saving it to the Corporate Cover Pages folder, make sure you’re logged in as Administrator or as a user with Administrator privileges, and follow these steps:

For more information regarding the Send Fax interface, see Sending a Test Fax.

Cover Pages for International Character Support

Cover pages created in WordPad can support the use of international (non-English) characters once the appropriate font type is applied.

Although the text of the bracketed fax keywords must not be modified, a font type that supports your language characters must be applied to the bracketed fax keywords.

To support Spanish characters, for example, you'd first select the entire bracketed fax keyword field, including the angle brackets, and then specify a font type that supports Spanish for the keyword field. Arial Unicode MS is one example of a multilingual font type that supports a wide variety of language characters.

Again, only the font type of the keyword text should be changed. The keywords inside the angle brackets must stay in English and must also immediately follow the first angle bracket. To create space to accommodate additional characters in a field, use your spacebar to move the opening angle bracket further to the right. DO NOT replace or delete any of the existing spaces between the brackets.

Here is an example of a Spanish custom fax cover page created from the Coverpage.doc file. The boldfaced text appearing outside the angle brackets has been changed from English to Spanish, graphics have been added, and the font type Arial Unicode MS has been applied to the fax keywords and their angle brackets.

Creating a Cover Page Template from a Blank Word Document

You can create a custom template using Microsoft Word, and have complete control over the location of the fields, the text describing the fields, and any graphic elements you want to add to the template. However, certain restrictions apply to this procedure.

You CANNOT create a cover page template for use with the FaxPress Enterprise without installing and using the Castelle Cover Page Macro. The server software requires that each cover page template contain the correct keyword fields. These fields are ONLY available when using the Castelle Cover Page Macro in Microsoft Word. Also, you can change, reformat, or re-order the text you add to the template, but you CANNOT MODIFY any text or spaces between the brackets of the keyword fields. If you alter the text or spaces between the brackets, the field will not be recognized by the FaxPress software.

Take the following steps to create your own custom cover page template, starting with a blank Microsoft Word document.

It is best to type in the text of all the fields you want in the default font and font size, and then add all of the keyword fields to your cover page template, before making format changes. Also, it is best to add all of the field names and keyword fields before you add graphics to the template.

Keep in mind that you can change, reformat, or re-order the text you add to the template, but you CANNOT MODIFY any text or spaces between the brackets of the keyword fields. If you alter the text or spaces between the brackets, the field will not be recognized by the FaxPress software.

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