Fellow Monkeys -- I hope some of you can help me out.
After adding countless items into the data room for an acquirer, our clients management team decided they wanted to have a specific header and footer in each excel file.
Is there a way to add headers/footers across multiple workbooks? I'd like to streamline this process a little. Also, opening hundreds of files for no real reason sounds awful. Hope there is an answer...
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How many workbooks is it?
You can group the sheets and apply the header and footer automatically, just remember to ungroup the sheets before you save.
Do you know vba? I am guessing there is a way to batch automate it if everything is in the same folder but I haven't done it before.
Its roughly 400 files.
I am starting to teach myself VBA but don't know it well enough yet.
Try following these, there is no summary I can type that will be more useful than a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOOa1ll3bEIf you don't mind clicking 400 files and the videos didn't work, this could work.
Lets try a test, Make a new folder for me and copy a small number of workbooks to it. Then change the header and footer in one active book and run this;
"Sub CopyHeaderFooter() Dim PS As PageSetup, WB As Workbook, WS As Worksheet Set PS = ActiveSheet.PageSetup For Each WB In Workbooks For Each WS In WB.Worksheets With WS.PageSetup .LeftHeader = PS.LeftHeader .CenterHeader = PS.CenterHeader .RightHeader = PS.RightHeader .LeftFooter = PS.LeftFooter .CenterFooter = PS.CenterFooter .RightFooter = PS.RightFooter End With Next Next End Sub"
You better quote this to get the spacing right just in case I didn't do it correctly.
Thank you for the insight! I will work on my VBA skills. For this task, I sucked it up and...had an intern do it.
Someone should make a plug-in for this though, I feel like it could be pretty useful.
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