Hi BJ
please note that this discussion is actually off-topic in a Developer forum. You'd probably get a lot more useful input at:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word
Where's you'll find many more people who do work like this than here :-)
Unfortunately, we're not able to move discussions between MSDN and the "Communities"...
But FWIW, put the "side image" in the header/footer area, for starters. That will prevent it from being moved accidentally while the user is writing the letter. If you are worried about it appearing on the following pages, set "Different First Page" for
the header (or footer, depending on to which you anchor the image). Then add the "image" to the first page header (or footer) rather than the "normal" one.
Beyond that, you'd need to enforce some kind of document protection which can have adverse effects on what functionality is available to the user. So you need to carefully think through just how "locked" that image needs to be. It's possible you may end
up needing a code solution in the end to check for the presence and position of the image before printing/saving.
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP,
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