Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007 and 2010. 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: Ampersands in Headers and Footers.
One of the finishing touches often applied to a worksheet is to create headers and footers that print on every page. You may have noticed that some characters won't print in a header or footer. For instance, if you work at a company named Drury & James, and you put the company name in the header or footer, it will print as Drury James, omitting the ampersand.
The reason for this is because the ampersand signals, to Excel, that the next character is "special" and represents a code controlling some aspect of what is printed. To override the effect that the ampersand has, simply use two ampersands, as in Drury && James. When you do, the first ampersand is "swallowed" by Excel and the second one actually prints.
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2024-09-16 12:47:20
Kiwerry
@Micky Avidan: Thanks for a useful list!
2018-09-19 11:33:21
PreeTee
Thank you for the simple solution!
2014-01-02 12:35:31
Michael (Micky) Avidan
Here is a list of all the common used codes in the Headers/Footers:
&D Current date
&T Current time
&F Workbook name
&A Worksheet's name (Worksheet's tab)
&P Current page number
&P+x Current page number plus x
&N Total pages in the Workbook(!)
&& Ampersand character
Page &[Page] out of &[Pages]
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