Header and footer authoring help
Header and footer authoring help
A new header footer layout comes with the company information data set. In Word you add default header or footer versions, modify and upload them.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
Quotes
- 8:56 "if you create a new header footer layout from Business Central, you get all the company information" - Shows that new header footer layouts start with the company information data set included.
Caveats mentioned
- Business Central ships roughly eight to ten header footer layouts, as heard
Documented features match
- Design header/footer layouts for document reports with the updated Word add-in - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573331. Header/footer samples in Word
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: header-footer, word-add-in, layouts, reporting
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.