Headers & Footers

Headers and footers are special embedded text frames at the bottom and top of every page in a document.  Headers are a good place to put the document name, footers are a good place for the page number or date.  Headers and footers appear exactly the same on each page in the document.  The text on the first page is the same as the text on the last page, except for page numbers, which change from page to page. 

NOTE: Frames cannot have headers or footers, only full-page documents.  Image processing does not support headers and footers.  All other environments do.

Example header
Text enlarged for demonstration purposes.

To Insert a Header or Footer

  • To insert a header into the current document:
    Select Insert Header from the Document menu. A header is placed at the top of all pages in the document.  If the document already has a header, this menu item is not displayed and Remove Header is displayed.

  • To insert a footer into the current document:
    Select Insert Footer from the Document menu.  A footer is placed at the bottom of all pages in the document.  If the document already has a footer, this menu item is not displayed and Remove Footer is displayed.

You can place any text you want in a header or footer, including auto-updated fields such as page numbers.  For information about placing a page number or other text field in a header or footer, see the Page Numbers and Other Text Fields topic.

To Remove a Header or Footer

  • To remove a header from the current document or frame:
    Select Remove Header from the Document menu.  The header is removed from the document along with any text in the header. If the document does not have a header, this menu item is not displayed and Insert Header is displayed.

  • To remove a footer from the current document or frame:
    Select Remove Footer from the Document menu.  The footer is removed from the document along with any text in the footer. If the document does not have a footer, this menu item is not displayed and Insert Footer is displayed.


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