White Label Template Instructions

Introduction

Thank you for participating in the MOAA chapter newsletter pilot. MOAA provides a downloadable template on our website for chapter participants. Use these instructions to customize the downloaded newsletter template for your chapter’s readers. (Note: Depending on your version of Microsoft Office, your setup may visually differ from what is presented below. The basic steps should behave similarly.)

Newsletter Format

The MOAA chapter newsletter template allows you to customize four content areas:

· Header: Include your chapter’s name to provide instant familiarity to your readers.

· Table of Contents: Provide an overview of chapter-specific news items ahead of MOAA updates.

· Body Text: Type or copy and paste chapter news content in placeholder areas.

· Footer: Add chapter contact information, including email and phone information.

Downloading the Template

1. Access the template landing page here, or open Internet Explorer and type or copy and paste http://www.moaa.org/whitelabel into the browser address bar.

2. Once the page opens in your browser, click October 2016 downloadable document.

3. When prompted by the dialogue box that opens, click Save As.

4. Select an area on your computer to save the document, enter a custom File name in the field provided, and then click Save.

5. Open the document from the chosen location.

Editing Content Areas

Use Microsoft Word tools such as paste, headers/footers, and hyperlinking to customize specific content areas for your chapter.

Headers and Footers

By default, headers and footers appear “grayed-out” or closed when a document opens. To engage them for editing, place the mouse over either and double-click.

The header and footer sections now appear open for editing.

Adding a hyperlinked email address in the footer

MOAA recommends including a hyperlinked email address to the footer section, reserved for contact information.

1. To edit the existing email hyperlink, open the footer for editing, right-click the email text, and select Edit Hyperlink from the dropdown menu.

2. In the Edit Hyperlink window that opens, customize information as formatted in the example, and then click OK. (Note: The Text to display field should only include an email address. In the E-mail address field, include “mailto:” before the address.)

Closing the header/footer editor

Once opened, the header/footer editor disengages the rest of the document from editing. To close the header/footer editor and return to editing the main document, double-click in the body area of the document or click Close Header and Footer in the header/footer toolbar.

Body Text

You may choose to draft custom newsletter content in the body text area, or you may copy and paste content from another source. (Note: Adding lines of content beyond the space provided in the template is acceptable, although chapters should be aware this may affect formatting of sections past chapter-specific body text.)

1. To copy and paste text into the newsletter template, use the mouse to highlight text from another document or web page, right-click, and select Copy from the dropdown menu.

2. Back in the newsletter template, highlight placeholder text or drop the cursor in the desired destination, and select Keep Text Only from the Paste drowndown menu in the toolbar to maintain consistent formatting.

Alternatively, right-click highlighted placeholder text and select the same option from the dropdown menu.

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