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Header/Footer

Defines or formats a header or footer for a Page Style.

To access this command...

Choose Insert - Headers and Footers - Header and Footer tabs.

Left Area

Enter the text to be displayed at the left side of the header or footer.

Centre Area

Enter the text to be displayed at the centre of the header or footer.

Right Area

Enter the text to be displayed at the right side of the header or footer.

Header/Footer

Select a predefined header or footer from the list.

Text attributes

Opens a dialogue box to assign formats to new or selected text. The Text Attributes dialog contains the tab pages Font, Font Effects and Font Position.

Text Attributes

File Name

Inserts a file name placeholder in the selected area. Click to insert the title. Long-click to select either title, file name or path/file name from the sub-menu. If a title has not be assigned (see File - Properties), the file name will be inserted instead.

File Name

Sheet Name

Inserts a placeholder in the selected header/footer area, which is replaced by the sheet name in the header/footer of the actual document.

Sheet Name

Page

Inserts a placeholder in the selected header/footer area, which is replaced by page numbering. This allows continuous page numbering in a document.

Page

Pages

Inserts a placeholder in the selected header/footer area, which is replaced by the total number of pages in the document.

Pages

Date

Inserts a placeholder in the selected header/footer area, which is replaced by the current date which will be repeated in the header/footer on each page of the document.

Date

Time

Inserts a placeholder in the selected header/footer area, which is replaced by the current time in the header/footer on each page of the document.

Time