RE: Word Template Logo recommendations
This is an old thread that was never really answered.. but I just went thru the entire exercise with a customer which had to update the logos on their GP Reports & Word Templates..
GP Report Writer acts very differently from the Word Templates, and if in GP RW the picture size that you define on the Report design matters, in the Word Template, the logo place-holder doesn't matter, because it's driven by the picture size you upload into GP for each company.
So, yes in Word Templates the original picture size you upload has to be considered and needs to be resized with an editor (like Paint !) to fit into the space you want it to use in your document (like Invoices).
My Customer was replacing a logo after a company acquisition and the new logo was bigger in height as the old one. The picture ration on the old one was 3.25 (width / height), much wider than high, whereas the new logo ad a ration of 1.81, which means it was pushing down the body section in the Word Template and thus the return address would get out of sight and not fit anymore into the transparent opening from the envelopes they were using.
I had to resize the new logo in pixels to the same height that the old was (more or less), to respect the height that was used before and not push down the return address and the body of the invoice, even if that means the logo was getting smaller in width.
Hope this helps.
PS: the original new logo from their marketing dept went from 2782x1535 all the way down to 199x110. After we had played with several formats (278x154), the PNG turned out to be the best with the less loss in quality after reduction (JPEG has much more loss in quality for same size).