I need to print and/ or export the WHOLE document - not just single pages - with spanning header and footer definitions. Header and footer should contain the usual information like page number, time stamp, etc.
Printing/ exporting the pages should also include the page icons (optionally at least).
Export format should be: Microsoft Word, Google Docs and PDF
Hi @Pascal_A_Miserez, we didn’t get to this in the first version of PDF export & print, but it’s on the list of future improvements to consider.
I’d love to understand more about your needs - what type of content is in your docs, and for what purpose are you exporting the full content?
Hello Nathan,
We produce a whole range of customer documents in A4 and A3, both portrait and landscape.
The documents always have a similar structure:
_ Title page
_ Legal Disclaimer
_ Management Summary
_ Table of Contents
_ 1 Chapter
__ 1.1 Chapter
___ 1.1.1 Chapter
___ 1.1.2 Chapter
__ 1.2 Chapter
_ 2 Chapter
_ 3 Chapter
_ …
_ Appendix A
_ Appendix B
(each item is a coda page)
The contents include continuous text, illustrations, (Coda-)tables, diagrams etc.
The documents are currently created manually: we export each page as a PDF file, concatenate it to a single PDF file and then convert it to a Microsoft Word document. Afterwards we copy the contents into a pre-formatted Word template.
The following features would be important for us to save this work:
_ Definition of page format (A3/ A4, Portrait/ Landscape)
_ Definition of margins
_ Definition of header and footer with the usual document variables (number of pages, print date, document version etc.)
_ Definitions to be set on an overall Coda document level and optionally on the Coda page level (page level settings override document level settings for the given page)
In addition, we would require:
_ Automatic hyphenation
_ (Continuously) numbered headings H1… H4 over all pages of a Coda document
_ Optional inclusion of page icons in a heading
_ TOC function analogous to Microsoft Word
_ Optional automatic zoom in/ out of a table/ illustration/ diagram to max. page width
_ Optional definition of styles for all styles in the output document
_ Export of the whole document and selected pages as PDF and Microsoft Word (.docx) file
For further questions/discussions I am at your disposal.
Kind regards, Pascal
| nathan Codan
November 17 |
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Hi @Pascal_A_Miserez, we didn’t get to this in the first version of PDF export & print, but it’s on the list of future improvements to consider.
I’d love to understand more about your needs - what type of content is in your docs, and for what purpose are you exporting the full content?
I’m also interested in something like this. I need Normal US 8.5" x 11", and potentially US Legal size. Headers, Footers (w/image support for logos/branding), Header levels, etc. Most important is the export to docx (MS Word). We would automate the initial creation of a draft document, to be exported and have final revisions and updates applied before production and delivery to our customer(s).
We’d also like to request this feature (headers + footers for each page that gets printed). It becomes necessary for any sort of official documents, and would also be best to know where the page divisions would be / margins so we can adjust the content for a given page to overflow or not.
Absolutely would require fulldoc support
This would be extremely useful for us as well.
We often use Coda to provide documentation to clients. Without fail, every single one of them asks if they can export it to Word or PDF.
Their reasoning is usually one of more of:
Nearly ZERO of them have Google accounts.
Dear @Leif_Gilbertson, welcome to the community!
Print to *.PDF is working quite well, although there are still areas of improvement.
Concerning the footer, this post might give some inspiration
It’s not out of the box, but more on a maker’s mindset 
I guess this counts for most non American companies, only start-ups use Gmail in BE, NL & FR . Gmail is seen as a private thing. Though the link with gmail is from a certain perspective understandable, it is not practical in the part of the world I live and work, it even gives Coda the outlook as a private thing, certainly not a business application. This is for now, I believe it will change over time when the product matures.
Printing is only printing the current page. This makes no sense in the context of “docs” and “pages”. It makes more sense to print the full document rather than the current page.
However, in practice, what would provide the most flexibility is being able to select which pages to print. I’m even thinking in a tree view component with checkboxes to select all subpages of a page to be printed
Any update on where we are with this request? I need to export a page as a PDF. The PDF file spans multiple letter-pages and will need appropriate header/footer information on each PDF-page. Is there a good way to do this at this time?
My header/footer needs require that I can put a company logo in the header and custom text in both the header and footer. I need the header/footer to appear on each page when doing a PDF export.
I’ve just released a new pack called Export to Word Pro that allows you to create a template Word doc, then export your Coda data into the template. It is the same idea as a tool like Contract Express which is often used to generate legal documents. This may be useful for those of you looking to export to Word (@Jeff_T @Pascal_A_Miserez @Rob_Phillips)
Hi Coda Community, do you know the status of this suggestion? I have seen similar topics from over the last 6 years, but no meaningful progress. Any news 
?
hi @IN-EX_Admin ,
I am afraid there is no update to be expected, not in the short term, neither in the long term. It seems that the importance and relevance of printing was and is not high enough on the to do list, a bit to my surprise as well. For many docs, the printed version matters. This is why years ago I wrote on the 4 P’s (permission, performance, privacy and print). For now the permission and performance issues are addressed via the workspace tables (in the works), the privacy logic remains steady (but no hosting in the EU planned for example). Print seems to be the ugly duck in the room.
Over time you may be able to bring data from coda to other software (like google docs) using the Coda MCP (today in beta) and use (in this example) google docs to print. Not ideal, but a scenario like this does not block you completely.
Cheers, Christiaan
@Christiaan_Huizer Thanks! In the meanwhile we moved all the data heavy exports to excel, which connects to tha coda api via powerquery. So far so good.
What are those workspace tables you mentioned?
Hi,
I agree with Christiaan that printing, exporting could be much improved. My day job does not “get” Coda, and they insist that the information also be available in Word so that other people can edit my documentation. (NOO!!! Which is a whole different discussion.)
You can export to PDF, but the quality is not great. You need to carefully massage the page you want to export. Some of the problems are understandable, tables are often wider than the page, and images also seem to cause problems.
However, to get back to the OP “Print the WHOLE document with Header and Footer” - I do not think that this will ever happen. There is considerable debate about whether Coda is an app or something else, but Coda is definitely closer to an app than to a word processor. It would be nearly impossible to write functionality to do that.
Regards
Piet
Good to read you found a solution @IN-EX_Admin.
The workspace tables support milions of rows, are fast and live on your workspace level from where they can be shared in your docs. it allows for smarter permission logic and certainly larger tables. I expect a beta somewhere late spring / early summer 2026.
The more formal and official communcation you find here.
cheers, christiaan