I'm having trouble getting 3 footer items (date, file, page of page) to stick on each sheet of my workbook. I can't seem to get more than one on the page. Thanks in advance.

If you select all the worksheets, you can add a common header and/or footer to all of them in one go. An alternative is to create the header and/or footer for one worksheet and then, without doing anything else, select each of the others in turn and press F4.

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Thanks Macropod for the info. By "selecting all the sheets" are you referring to clicking on a tab at the bottom and clicking "select all sheets"? Seems obvious but thought I'd best check. And I still have not been able to show more that one footer item on the sheet. In Word I usually put file name, page of page, and the date, but I've not found out yet how to do that.

To select the multiple sheets, simply hold down the Shift or Ctrl key whilst clicking their tabs:
Shift lets you click on the first/last of a series and span all of them;
Ctrl lets you choose individual sheets to group for the action.

To add header/footer items in Excel, go to Page Setup>Header/Footer> Custom Header/Custom Footer and choose your Left, Center and Right content. Note too that you can have a different first page and different odd & even, just like in Word.

PS. Re: I went through there in July this year, visiting Redwood N.P. & Crescent City.

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