# How to transfer Lotus Notes data to a MS Word header or footer

**Description**

It's not possible to add a form field to a header or footer in Word.

**Solution**

In order to map a Notes field into a header or footer, you will have to use bookmarks. Here is the procedure:

Open Word document and set the cursor in the header (or footer) of the document.

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Go to the Insert - Bookmark, enter the name of the bookmark and press "Add".

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The bookmark will be created, although you might not be able to see it (in order to see all the bookmarks, you should enable the bookmarks view: Tools->Options...->View tab->Show section->Bookmarks checkbox).

Once you have created a Word template, you can proceed with field mappings. Bookmarks are generally mapped with the following syntax:

Notice that you can have more than one bookmark defined on your Word template.