Add headers and footers to slides

The footer is the area at the bottom of the slide, constructed by way of placeholders that contain information that's repeated on every slide in the presentation. The header or footer accepts information such as custom text, dates and times, and the slide number. Headers and footers can be applied to Notes and Handouts. The Notes and Handouts tab can be seen in the following screenshot, just to the right of the Slide tab.

1. Open an existing presentation. For this example, we will use the Safest Solutions-Benefit.pptx presentation.
2. Click on the Insert tab and select Header & Footer from the Text group.
3. In the Header and Footer dialog box, select the option that best suits your presentation:

4. Select the Slide tab at the top of the dialog box to view the options to include on slides.
5. Click on the Date and time checkbox and choose whether to add a static fixed date or whether this will Update automatically (this option will update the date to the current date every time the presentation is opened).
6. You can include a Slide number and also a static Footer. This option is located just under the Fixed date option.
7. Sometimes, we may want to exclude a header from the title slide of the presentation. Select this option by clicking in the checkbox provided to activate it.

8. Please note that at the bottom of the dialog box, you can choose whether to Apply changes to the current slide or choose to Apply to All to commit the changes to the entire presentation.  Also, note that there is no header section on the Slides tab.
9. The Notes and Handouts tab contains many of the same options as the Slide tab but includes a Header section so that you can create a static custom header for notes and handouts only.