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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 12, 2020)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
One of the typical last touches to a worksheet before printing is to place headers or footers. This is very easy to do if you have only a worksheet or two in which to place the headers and footers. What if you have quite a few worksheets in the same workbook, and you want them all to have the same header and footer.
Actually, this isn't too hard to do, either. All you need to do is work with a group of worksheets as a single unit. Just follow these general steps:
That's it; you've now set the headers and footers of all the sheets to be identical.
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2020-12-16 06:17:54
Richard Curtis
I prepare reports in Excel. All the report worksheets have headers and footers defined. One of the worksheets contains the data that is the main subject of the report. This worksheet is generated by export from another application to a comma-separated file which, naturally, does not have a header/footer definition. A few steps are necessary to integrate the new worksheet into the report, replacing the old worksheet.
1. Create the export.
2. Re-arrange the column order to match the report style.
3. Copy the export worksheet into the report workbook.
4. Select the existing data worksheet, hold Shift and select the new worksheet.
5. The headers and footers are automatically copied from the existing data worksheet to the new one.
6. Select the new worksheet in isolation and inspect the results.
7. Select the old worksheet and delete it.
8. Save the workbook.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here:
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