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How to add background color to headers or footers in Excel sheet while printing?

As we know, we can add contents or picture to the header or footer of a sheet, which will display while printing. But have you ever tried to add background color to the headers or footers? Actually, there is no built-in function can handle it, but here I introduce some roundabout ways to achieve the operation.

Add background color to header or footer by Fill color

Add background color to header and footer by VBA


Add background color to header or footer by Fill color

1. Click Page Layout > Page Setup.
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2. In the Page Setup dialog, under Margins tab, type 0 into Top, Header, Bottom and Footer textboxes.
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3. Click OK. Then select first row and click Home > Merge & Center.
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3. Go ahead to select a color from Fill color list to add background color to the merged cells.
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4. Repeat step 2 and 3 to add background color to the footer row you want.

Now the page seems to add background color to header and footer.
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Add background color to header and footer by VBA

Here is a VBA code can quickly add background color to header and footer at the same time.

1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code to the new module.

VBA: Add background color to header and footer

Sub FakeHeaderFooter()
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20180628
    Dim I, J As Long
   Dim xRg As Range
    Dim xRow, xCol As Long
    Dim xRows, xCols As Long
    Dim xDivRow, xDivCol As Long
    Dim xTopArr, xButtArr As Variant
    Dim PageSize1, PageSize2 As Integer
    On Error Resume Next
    xTopArr = Array("Top Left", "", "", "Top Center", "", "", "", "")
    xButtArr = Array("Bottom Left", "", "", "Bottom Center", "", "", "", "")
    PageSize1 = 46
    PageSize2 = 8
    With ActiveSheet.PageSetup
        .TopMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)
        .BottomMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)
        .HeaderMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)
        .FooterMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)
        .BlackAndWhite = False
    End With
    Set xRg = ActiveSheet.UsedRange
    If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
    xRows = xRg(xRg.Count).Row
    xCols = xRg(xRg.Count).Column
    If xRows < 46 Then xRows = 46
    If xCol < 8 Then xCol = 8
    xDivRow = Int(xRows / PageSize1)
    xDivCol = Int(xCols / PageSize2)
    If ((xRows Mod PageSize1) > 0) And (xDivRow <> 0) Then xDivRow = xDivRow + 1
    If ((xCols Mod PageSize2) > 0) And (xDivCol <> 0) Then xDivCol = xDivCol + 1
    If xDivRow = 0 Then xDivRow = 1
    If xDivCol = 0 Then xDivCol = 1
    Set xRg = Range("A1").Resize(xDivRow * PageSize1, xDivCol * PageSize2)
    xRow = 1
    xCol = 1
    Cells.PageBreak = xlPageBreakNone
    For I = 1 To xDivRow * PageSize1 Step PageSize1 + 1
        For J = 1 To xDivCol * PageSize2 Step PageSize2
            Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2) = xTopArr
            Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
            Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2) = xButtArr
            Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34
            Rows(I + PageSize1 + 1).PageBreak = xlManual
            Columns(J + PageSize2).PageBreak = xlManual
        Next
    Next
End Sub

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3. Press F5 key to run the code, then certain background color has been added to the first row and the 47th row of each sheet which will shown as fake header and footer.
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Note: in the code, you can change below scripts to meet your need.

1. Change the header and footer contents as you need in the string:

xTopArr = Array("Top Left", "", "", "Top Center", "", "", "", "")

xButtArr = Array("Bottom Left", "", "", "Bottom Center", "", "", "", "")

2. Change the background color index in this sting:

Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34

Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34


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