Microsoft KB Archive/192218

= XL98: Left/Right-Aligned Header/Footer Text Ignores Margins =

Article ID: 192218

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q192218





SYMPTOMS
When you print your worksheet, headers and footers that you have applied to the worksheet may print outside of the margins that you have set for the worksheet.



CAUSE
In Microsoft Excel, the header and footer on your worksheet always use a left and right margin of 0.75 inch. Because of this, left-aligned text in the header or footer always begins 0.75 inches from the left edge of the page, regardless of the left margin setting. Similarly, right-aligned text will always print 0.75 inches from the right side of the page.



WORKAROUND
Although you cannot change these margins, you can create wider margins by adding extra spaces to the header or footer ("padding").

To pad the left header or footer, you can add spaces before the text. However, because the right header or footer ignores trailing spaces, you must use a nonbreaking space to allow the spaces to be maintained when you add them to the end of your footer.

To pad the right header or footer with spaces, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the File menu, click Page Setup.
 * 2) Click the Header/Footer tab, and then click Custom Header or Custom Footer.
 * 3) In the Right Section box, type the text or control codes that you want to appear in the header.
 * 4) Press OPTION+SHIFT+SPACEBAR to enter nonbreaking spaces (press this key combination as many times as necessary to insert the number of spaces you want).

The spaces at the end of the text string are applied to the printed output.

Additional query words: XL98

Keywords: kbprint kbprb KB192218

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