Personal Letterhead Templates
Ten free personal letterhead templates for Microsoft Word and Google Docs — household stationery, monograms, family crests, sympathy notes and writer's stationery. Replace the placeholder name, address and graphics; the layout stays put.
10 designs · two formats each.
Every template ships in both Microsoft Word (.dotx) and Google Docs. The .dotx download opens in Word as a fresh document; the Google Docs link opens a copy directly in your browser.
Which of these should you use?
Personal letterhead is the one kind of stationery nobody needs and everybody notices. A letter of condolence, a note to a landlord, a reference for a neighbour, a thank-you that deserves better than email — all of them land differently on a page with your own name set properly at the top. These ten are free to download and edit, in Microsoft Word and in Google Docs.
Printing on half-sheet and monarch stationery
Personal correspondence is often not letter size. Half-sheet (5.5 × 8.5 in) and monarch (7.25 × 10.5 in) are both traditional for social stationery, and a short note on a full sheet can look stranded. Every template here is built at 8.5 × 11, but the conversion is one dialog: in Word open Layout → Size → More Paper Sizes and enter the dimensions you want, then pull the margins in. Two sheets of half-size fit on one letter page if you would rather print and cut.
Which Word versions do these open in?
All of them from Word 2007 forward — 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, Microsoft 365, and Word for Mac. The download is a .dotx template rather than a document, so opening it starts a fresh letter and leaves your master copy untouched. On Windows 10 and 11 it opens on a double-click with nothing to install. If you already have letterhead printed on paper and want a digital version, scanning it and dropping the image into one of these layouts is usually faster than rebuilding it from scratch.
Looking for something more specific?
- Personal religious stationery — the religious and church letterheads include quiet, non-institutional designs that suit personal correspondence rather than parish business.
- Your initials as the mark — the monogram makers build the monogram live from your own letters and bake it into the file before you download it.
- A professional register — if the letter is going out from a practice rather than a person, the professional designs carry a credential line.
All ten are free for your own personal use, as many letters as you like. Please do not redistribute the template files themselves elsewhere on the web.
Updated through July 2026.
Customize in two minutes.
- Pick a design and choose your editor — Microsoft Word downloads the template (a
.dotxfile; opening it creates a fresh document and leaves the original intact for next time), or Google Docs prompts you to make a copy in Drive. - Replace the placeholder tokens —
[Your Name],[Family Name],[Street Address],[Recipient], etc. Embedded graphics (monograms, crests, ornaments) can be replaced with your own — right-click → Change Picture (Word), or click → Replace image (Google Docs). - Type your letter where the sample paragraph is. Save and print on standard 8.5 × 11 paper, or send as a PDF.










