How To Create Header In Excel 2013

How to add background color to headers or footers in Excel sheet while printing?

As we know, we can add contents or picture to the header or footer of a sheet, which will display while printing. But have you ever tried to add background color to the headers or footers? Actually, there is no built-in function can handle it, but here I introduce some roundabout ways to achieve the operation.

Add background color to header or footer by Fill color

Add background color to header and footer by VBA

Add background color to header or footer by Fill color

1. Click Page Layout > Page Setup.
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2. In the Page Setup dialog, under Margins tab, type 0 into Top, Header, Bottom and Footer textboxes.
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3. Click OK. Then select first row and click Home > Merge & Center.
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3. Go ahead to select a color from Fill color list to add background color to the merged cells.
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4. Repeat step 2 and 3 to add background color to the footer row you want.

Now the page seems to add background color to header and footer.
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Add background color to header and footer by VBA

Here is a VBA code can quickly add background color to header and footer at the same time.

1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code to the new module.

VBA: Add background color to header and footer

Sub FakeHeaderFooter() 'UpdatebyExtendoffice20180628     Dim I, J As Long    Dim xRg As Range     Dim xRow, xCol As Long     Dim xRows, xCols As Long     Dim xDivRow, xDivCol As Long     Dim xTopArr, xButtArr As Variant     Dim PageSize1, PageSize2 As Integer     On Error Resume Next     xTopArr = Array("Top Left", "", "", "Top Center", "", "", "", "")     xButtArr = Array("Bottom Left", "", "", "Bottom Center", "", "", "", "")     PageSize1 = 46     PageSize2 = 8     With ActiveSheet.PageSetup         .TopMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)         .BottomMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)         .HeaderMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)         .FooterMargin = Application.InchesToPoints(0)         .BlackAndWhite = False     End With     Set xRg = ActiveSheet.UsedRange     If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub     xRows = xRg(xRg.Count).Row     xCols = xRg(xRg.Count).Column     If xRows < 46 Then xRows = 46     If xCol < 8 Then xCol = 8     xDivRow = Int(xRows / PageSize1)     xDivCol = Int(xCols / PageSize2)     If ((xRows Mod PageSize1) > 0) And (xDivRow <> 0) Then xDivRow = xDivRow + 1     If ((xCols Mod PageSize2) > 0) And (xDivCol <> 0) Then xDivCol = xDivCol + 1     If xDivRow = 0 Then xDivRow = 1     If xDivCol = 0 Then xDivCol = 1     Set xRg = Range("A1").Resize(xDivRow * PageSize1, xDivCol * PageSize2)     xRow = 1     xCol = 1     Cells.PageBreak = xlPageBreakNone     For I = 1 To xDivRow * PageSize1 Step PageSize1 + 1         For J = 1 To xDivCol * PageSize2 Step PageSize2             Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2) = xTopArr             Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34             Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2) = xButtArr             Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34             Rows(I + PageSize1 + 1).PageBreak = xlManual             Columns(J + PageSize2).PageBreak = xlManual         Next     Next End Sub

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3. Press F5 key to run the code, then certain background color has been added to the first row and the 47th row of each sheet which will shown as fake header and footer.
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Note: in the code, you can change below scripts to meet your need.

1. Change the header and footer contents as you need in the string:

xTopArr = Array("Top Left", "", "", "Top Center", "", "", "", "")

xButtArr = Array("Bottom Left", "", "", "Bottom Center", "", "", "", "")

2. Change the background color index in this sting:

Cells(I, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34

Cells(I + PageSize1, J).Resize(1, PageSize2).Interior.ColorIndex = 34

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