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How to rotate footer/header text while in Landscape mode in Excel?

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In Excel, we can rotate a cell text by 45 or 90 degrees as we need, but have you ever tried to rotate the footer or header text by 90 degrees? Supposing you want to print a sheet in landscape mode, and you want to rotate the header or footer to view the page number more conveniently as below screenshot shown. How could you solve it in Excel?
A screenshot showing a header rotated 90 degrees in Excel while in landscape mode

Rotate footer or header text while in landscape mode

Rotate footer or header text while in landscape mode

There is no direct way to rotate footer or header, but here’s a workaround to quickly insert and rotate a header or footer in landscape mode.

1. Insert a column before column A (you can insert a new column before the page break line if you want to insert footer). See screenshot:
A screenshot demonstrating the insertion of a new column before the page break line in Excel

2. Then select a cell between cell A1 and A33 you want to insert a header, and type the page number into it. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing a header inserted into a selected cell in Excel

3. Then click Home > Orientation > Format Cell Alignment, and in the Format Cells dialog, type 90 into the Degrees text box. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing the Format Cell Alignment option in Excel to rotate text
A screenshot of the Format Cells dialog box where text rotation is set to 90 degrees

4. Click OK, and the text has been successfully rotated.
A screenshot showing a header rotated 90 degrees in Excel while in landscape mode

Tip. If there are several sheets needed to rotate the header, you can apply Kutools for Excel's Copy Worksheets utility to copy the format of a sheet to multiple new sheets as shown in the following steps.

1. After you insert and rotate the header in a sheet, click Kutools Plus > Copy Worksheets. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing the Kutools Copy Worksheets utility in Excel

2. In the Copy Multiple Worksheets dialog, select the sheet name you have inserted and rotated the header in left list, and specify the number of copies and location in right section. See screenshot:
A screenshot of the Copy Multiple Worksheets dialog in Excel

3. Click Ok, then the specified number of sheets with the same format and contents have been created, you can change the page number and contents as you need. See screenshot:
A screenshot showing the copied worksheets with the same header format

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