The use of headers and footers is often overlooked or not understood by people who are inexperienced in writing business documents.

The name of the author and the date of the document preparation in the footer is very important. Students are forever sending assessment work to teachers by email and not putting their name anywhere in the document. By adding their name in the footer, the author claims each and very page of the document, and this is very important from a copyright perspective.

The title of the document can be put in the header although this is optional.

Headers and footers need only be a small font size. In the report opposite, the header is 10 points size and the footer is 8 points.