Personal letterhead in Word for a principal
A principal’s personal stationery — distinct from the family office’s institutional letterhead — converted into a Word file for individual correspondence.
The principal’s personal mark is not the family office
An institutional letterhead and a personal one are two different things, and a principal who has both knows the difference. The family office letterhead carries the office’s name, address, and identifying detail. The principal’s personal letterhead carries the principal’s name — and not much else.
The two are used for different correspondence, and using the wrong one is itself a signal.
A letter from a principal to a school they support, to a peer, to an institution where they sit on a committee, belongs on the personal letterhead. A trust matter or an office instruction belongs on the office’s. When only the institutional letterhead exists in Word, every personal letter ends up either drafted on the wrong stationery or built from scratch — and a personal letter that looks like an office memo loses the warmth that was the entire point of having personal stationery in the first place.
A separate Word file for personal correspondence
Letterhead Lab converts the principal’s personal letterhead PDF into its own Microsoft Word file, kept distinct from the office’s. The mark and the principal’s name are set into the header; the body is open for a personal note.
The assistant who runs the principal’s correspondence converts the PDF once and saves the file under a clear personal name — not in the office templates folder, but where the principal’s own work is kept. From then on, personal letters are drafted from that file. The office templates remain for office business, and the two streams of correspondence stay cleanly separated.
If the principal also keeps engraved personal sheets for letters that should be handwritten or printed for posting, the same source PDF that produced this Word file is what goes to Wells & Drew for engraved stationery. The Word version handles the everyday personal correspondence an assistant types — introductions, thanks, condolences — and the engraved sheets handle the letters that should arrive as objects. Both sit under the same personal mark because both were drawn from the same source. The conversion runs in the browser, so the principal’s personal letterhead never reaches a server.
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Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the family office's letterhead?
- The personal letterhead carries the principal's own name and is used for individual correspondence. The office's institutional letterhead carries the office's name and is used for office business. Each becomes its own separate Word file.
- Can the assistant draft from the personal letterhead?
- Yes. The assistant opens the personal Word file and drafts the letter for the principal to sign or send. It is kept separate from the office templates so the wrong one is hard to grab by mistake.
- Will engraved personal sheets still match the Word version?
- Yes. The same personal letterhead PDF that produced the Word file is the file your stationer engraves the personal sheets from, so the typed and the engraved correspondence carry the identical mark.
- Does the principal's personal letterhead PDF get uploaded?
- No. The conversion runs in your browser, so a personal letterhead carrying a principal's name never reaches our servers.
- What does the single conversion cost?
- $19 for the personal letterhead on its own. The $49 Multi-page bundle is worth it if the principal also wants both A4 and US Letter or a .dotx template alongside.
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