Video: Add a header or footer
Applies To
Visio Plan 2 Visio Professional 2024 Visio Standard 2024 Visio Professional 2021 Visio Standard 2021 Visio Professional 2019 Visio Standard 2019 Visio Professional 2016 Visio Standard 2016Tip: Video not in your language? Try selecting Closed Captions .
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Add a header or footer that acts like a background page and can be applied to all or selected pages in your diagrams.
Create a header and footer page
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Select Design > Borders & Titles, and select the style you want for the header or footer.
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Visio creates a new header and footer page called VBackground-X.
Right-click the header and footer background page tab, select Rename, and type in a new name.
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Select the header and footer page.
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Double-click any of the text areas, and type in text.
Tip: To add the date, time, or page information, select a text box in the header or footer area, select Insert > Field, and select the field you want to add.
Create a new text box in the footer
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Select Text Box.
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Drag to create a new text box in the footer.
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Type in the text you want.
Apply a background
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Select Design > Backgrounds, and select the background you want.
Apply an existing header and footer to a page
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Select the page you want to add the header and footer to.
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Select Design.
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In the Page Setup group, select the More arrow.
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Select Page Properties.
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In the Background list, select the header and footer page you want.
Note: Header and footer pages work best when they are the same size as the foreground page.