Positioning Headers and Footers

Thanks, this helped!

@ Jim
As I tried to explain in my previous post, the only alignment available is relative to the page via the three sections - there is [currently] no built-in way to do what you are seeking within each section as the functionality does not exist.

Please publish the way to change the justification within the three header sections. I want to be able to enter text at a point other than the left margin in the left section, the center in the center section and the right margin in the right section.

@ Jim
The alignment is of the header/footer sections relative to the page rather than of the contents within each header/footer sections, so without such fancy formatting things as Tab stops, lots of spaces is about all you can use :-(.

How can I cause text in EACH OF THE 3 header sections to be left-aligned, centered or right-aligned independently? I don't necessarily want it left-aligned in the left section, centered in the middle section or right-aligned in the right section.

Thank you Col Delane.
Actually I went with a 2 line footer, putting the Tab name and Date on the topmost line and the File and Page n of n on the second line. The File name is just way too long, in my case.

I did find some other useful header/footer formatting codes here, which I pass along for those stumbling across this thread:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff822794.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Thanks again to everyone. I am sure I will be visiting Allen Wyatt's site more often in the future.
Rick

@Rick
The best way to overcome your problem is to append the tab name to the filename within the left footer, viz;
&[Path]&[File] - &[Tab]

(Remove &[Path] if you only want filename & tab name)

I think the reason that &[Tab] followed by a Carriage Return causes the sheet name to appear 1 line above the rest of the footer info is that the footer margin determines where a last/bottom line of footer will print, so any additional lines in the footer must (by definition) push further into the print area. It's a little counter-intuitive: so if a long left footer (e.g. path-filename-tab) overlaps the centre footer (e.g. Page n of n), you need a carriage return AFTER the field codes of the chosen footer to push that footer above the other.

I am using Excel 2010.
Is there a way to control horizontal alignment of each of the 3 sections (left, center, right) when you use the Header/Footer tab of the Page Setup dialog box - after clicking the Custom Footer... button?

For instance, I want to heve the Left section contain &[File] (which is by default left-aligned), and the Right section to contain &[Page] (which is by default right-aligned), and the Center section always appears to be center-aligned. I would like to have &[Tab] in the Center section, but right-align it.

The real problem I am trying to solve is with a LONG Filename that extends very far into the Center section of the footer. The best solution I have come up with so far is to define the Center section to contain: &[Tab] followed by a Carriage Return, which causes the actual sheet name to appear 1 line above the rest of the footer info.

Many thanks for all the awesome stuff you have on your website!
Rick

Hi,

so I understand it correctly that it's impossible to have a full-page watermark on the page?

Currently, the best I can achieve is to have it span top to bottom (header and footer margins to 0), but can't get it to align to the left page border.