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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 or footers of all the sheets to be identical.
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2017-04-12 10:16:00
Elmer Deming
I followed the steps above, however, it's populating all data from one sheet to the other. I just want to duplicate the header from one sheet to another.
2016-12-21 06:18:11
I've used this technique to set up a template document comprising 3 separate tabs.This worked fine but part of the text in the Headers and footers will be changed as the template is used for a specific document.
When I use the template to make a specific document the amendments in the headers and footers only change per tab, not through the whole workbook.
Is there a way to resolve this?
2016-05-16 09:19:26
Shailesh
thank you very much... it save lots of time
2016-03-31 07:37:03
Need to know how can i put a header on top of all sheet...
2016-01-13 16:50:44
Margot
A really great service - thanks so much.
2015-09-11 14:11:35
Trista
Each time I change the header on worksheet #1 I would like the header to change on worksheet #4 to reflect the same changes without having to go into it and make the changes manually. Is there a way to do that? I have other cells using a formula to copy info from worksheet #1 but I don't know how to do it with a header. Thank you.
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