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How to add header or footer to all worksheets/pages in Excel?

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Sometimes, you may want to add the same header or footer to all sheets in a workbook when printing. And in this case, do you have any ideas on how to quickly add the same header/footer to all pages of the workbook? This tutorial can give you the good solutions.

Add same header/footer to all pages in Excel

Copy header/footer or other printing setup to all pages with Copy Page Setup good idea3


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To add the same header or footer to all pages in a workbook, you just need to do as below steps:

1. Enable the workbook, and right click at one tab in the Sheet Tab bar to display the right menu, and then click Select All Sheets. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing the Select All Sheets option in Excel's sheet tab menu

Then all the worksheets in this workbook are selected. Now you can add the header or footer.

A screenshot of all sheets selected for header/footer addition

2. Click View > Page Layout, and then you can add the header or footer to the location as you need. See screenshots:

A screenshot of the Page Layout option under the View tab in Excel
A screenshot showing the header area in Excel's Page Layout view

Tip: you also can click Page Layout button in the Status bar to switch page view to the page layout.

A screenshot of Page Layout button in the Excel Status bar

Then all the pages in the workbook are added same header or footer.

arrow blue right bubble Copy header/footer or other printing setup to all pages with Copy Page Setup

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1. Before you applying Page Setup utility, you need to set up a sheet as the model. Here I choose sheet Company1, and then click Insert > Header & Footer in the Text group. See screenshot:

A screenshot of Header & Footer option in the Text group under Insert tab in Excel

2. Then add the footer or header you need, you also can specify other settings to this page as you need. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing header input area in Excel

3. Then click Kutools Plus > Printing > Copy Page Setup. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Copy Page Setup option in Kutools Plus tab in Excel

4. Then in the Copy Page Setup dialog, check the sheets that you want to copy the current page’s settings to, in default, all the sheets are checked. And go to right section, you can check the settings you want to copy. See screenshot:

A screenshot of Copy Page Setup dialog with selected sheets

Tip: If you just want to copy the header or footer, drag the scrollbar down to the Header/Footer part, and check it only. See screenshot:

A screenshot of Copy Page Setup dialog with only Header/Footer selected

5. Click Ok. And now all the pages of the workbook are in the same printing setup as you need.

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