Circumventing the 255 character header/footer limit

[Cato Larsen]

Hey guys!
Been looking into this limit, and its bugging the living daylight out of me.
If I start formatting the text in the header/footer I get the 255 limit
(adding bold here and there).
Is there a way to circumvent this, or make a header and footer trough
lockable cells in excel?

 

[Bernard Liengme]

If there was a way to circumvent the 255 limit, then 255 would not be the
limit but some other value would!
You know about Page Setup and having set rows printed on every page?
best wishes

 

[Cato Larsen]

There is usually more than one way to attack a problem, no?

Yes, I've explored the Page Setup dialog, but in Excel 2003 (should have
mentioned this in my original post, sorry) it seems as if Im limited to only
the Top of the sheet, and not the bottom as well.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you can create a picture of the text you want (using a different
application).

Then you could insert that picture in the header/footer.

 

[Cato Larsen]

Ive considered the use of pictures to replace the text. the problem is that
this is a template that will be used for a lot of different documents, and
the people using this template has limited experience with photo editing
software and so fourth.

Is there any smart way of doing this trough VB or similar?

 

[Dave Peterson]

If the headers/footers don't change, maybe you could create a template (or
several) and never let the users know that there are pictures there.

 

[Cato Larsen]

Pretty much everything the template contain in the header and footer is
dynamic.
Document name, date, author, path to document, page and so fourth, so this
is not feasible.