I wasn't able to give a good answer when i asked this, so here it is. The question came from a reasonably experienced latexie. He needs to change the spacing on the first page to use letterhead. I suggested vspace, but : *** Yes, I am. The \vspace worked, but I had to put it in a My Address environment to make it have an effect. Putting in the My Address environment also moved the closure over to a center format, which is kind of a drag. I thought there might be a simple way to format the topmargin of the first page in a letter document, since different letterheads obviously demand some special control of this parameter. I don't know how to influence only the topmargin on the first page. *** I assume such an easy way exists, but i have no idea what it is. rick --
