cloning headers & footers in excel

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I am adding some pages to a workbook, I don't want to manually type out all the information I have in the footers & the headers - how do I copy those settings from existing pages to the new pages?

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@AprilW 

Usually you create your headers and footers separately for each sheet.

But you can simplify your work :))

 

So before inserting the header and footer, you can group the worksheets

(click on the tab of the 1st worksheet

- hold down the Shift key

- click on the tab of the last worksheet).

[Group] now appears in the title bar.

All settings and changes you make now will be transferred to the other worksheets.

 

I would be happy to know if I could help.

 

Nikolino

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@NikolinoDE thanks, that is what I have done in the past, but that involves recreating them again, and each time it is the same information, just a pain in my butt

@AprilW 

Maybe a try with VBA :))

 

 

Option Explicit

Sub head_and_footer()
Dim wks As Worksheet, wks_def As Worksheet
Set wks_def = Sheets("YourWorksheet")
For Each wks In ThisWorkbook.Sheets
    With wks.PageSetup
        .LeftHeader = wks_def.PageSetup.LeftHeader
        .CenterHeader = wks_def.PageSetup.CenterHeader
        .RightHeader = wks_def.PageSetup.RightHeader
        .LeftFooter = wks_def.PageSetup.LeftFooter
        .CenterFooter = wks_def.PageSetup.CenterFooter
        .RightFooter = wks_def.PageSetup.RightFooter
    End With
Next wks
End Sub

 

 

 

Thank you for your patience and time.

 

Nikolino

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