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berbke
Copper Contributor
Jun 18, 2021

Edit your existing headers and footers in Edge

Hi,   new Edge browser (as well as Chrome) do not offer options to customize header & footers while printing. Our business receives several reports in html view and they need to customize header &...
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TheShaunSaw
Silver Contributor
Jun 18, 2021

Hi berbke, you are welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider Community Hub!

 

Current Situation

There is no way to edit the header and footer while printing and there are no plans for implementation of this feature in the near future.

 

Workaround

To edit the header and footer, what you can do is print the webpage without the header and footer and then manually add them. https://online2pdf.com/create-header-and-footer-in-pdf can help you with that (Note: Use it at your own risk). I recommend you add a margin while printing the PDF in order to avoid overlaying the header and footer, 0.5" as the top and bottom margin seems to work. If you want to add the header and footer manually, I recommend you to use the command-line tool https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries

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    Caron21
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 10, 2021

    TheShaunSaw 

    Have there been any updates to this answer? The footer is very important to our business needs. Is there a reason this feature is not being offered in Edge?

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      TheShaunSaw
      Silver Contributor
      Aug 11, 2021

      Caron21 

      I would like to tag johnjansen, a Microsoft Edge Engineer to look into this issue.

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        Caron21
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 11, 2021

        TheShaunSaw Okay, Thank you.

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    chuckie300
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 02, 2021
    This is crazy and all due respect I am so surprised.

    Microsoft have pushed and pushed to use this browser and yet it lacks basic functionality. Why on earth would you remove the ability for us to customise the headers? My software uses a browser as an internal viewer and prints from there. It is in over 50 languages and some of them are languages that windows does not sponsor. So the user might want to add their own text. I it crazy to print and then modify. Please bring back such a basic feature that must take 5 minutes to code. Thank you!

    And please make your Print Window resizable. At the moment it is forcing it to fit inside the view window which makes no sense. I have a big screen and I am not in a position to resizing the fixed internal viewer before printing.

    I really hope these issues will be addressed promptly please. Microsoft should improve and not regress. Makes no sense IMHO.

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