In LaTeX how can one add a header footer in the document class Letter

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In LaTeX  how can one create a document using the Letter documentclass  but with customized headers and footers   Typically I would use    usepackage fancyhdr    pagestyle fancy   lhead  footnotesize  parbox 11cm  Custom left-head-note     lfoot  footnotesize  parbox 11cm   textit  2     rfoot  footnotesize Page  thepage  of  pageref LastPage    renewcommand headheight 24pt   renewcommand footrulewidth 0 4pt    However  with  documentclass letter   this doesn t work at all  Suggestions are duly appreciated   EDIT  Here is sample code that doesn t work  for any apparent reason     documentclass 12pt  letter    usepackage fontspec   font selecting commands   usepackage xunicode   unicode character macros   usepackage xltxtra    some fixes extras     page counting  header footer  usepackage fancyhdr   usepackage lastpage    pagestyle fancy   lhead  footnotesize  parbox 11cm  Draft 1     lfoot  footnotesize  parbox 11cm   textit 2     cfoot    rhead  footnotesize 3   rfoot  footnotesize Page  thepage  of  pageref LastPage    renewcommand  headheight  24pt   renewcommand  footrulewidth  0 4pt    begin document   name  Joe Laroo    signature  Joe Laroo    begin letter   To-Address    renewcommand  today   February 16  2009    opening  Opening   Content of the letter   closing  Yours truly     end letter   end document

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This code works to insert both header and footer on the first page with header center aligned and footer left aligned  makeatletter  let old ps headings ps headings  let old ps IEEEtitlepagestyle ps IEEEtitlepagestyle  def confheader 1       for the first page    def ps IEEEtitlepagestyle        old ps IEEEtitlepagestyle       def  oddhead  strut hfill 1 hfill strut        def  evenhead  strut hfill 1 hfill strut     def  oddfoot  mycopyrightnotice     def  evenfoot           ps headings     makeatother   confheader     5   th    IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering - ICRAIE 2020  IEEE Record  51050   EDIT HERE     def mycopyrightnotice      footnotesize XXX-1-7281-8867-6 20   31 00  copyright 2020 IEEE hfill    EDIT HERE    gdef mycopyrightnotice        newcommand   affmark  1      textsuperscript  1      def BibTeX   rm B kern- 05em  sc i kern- 025em b  kern- 08em     T kern- 1667em lower 7ex hbox E  kern- 125emX    newcommand  ma  1   mbox  boldmath  1

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Just before your  Content of the letter  line  add  thispagestyle fancy  and it should show the headers you defined    It worked for me    Here s the full document that I used to test    documentclass 12pt  letter    usepackage fontspec   font selecting commands   usepackage xunicode   unicode character macros   usepackage xltxtra    some fixes extras     page counting  header footer  usepackage fancyhdr   usepackage lastpage    pagestyle fancy   lhead  footnotesize  parbox 11cm  Draft 1     lfoot  footnotesize  parbox 11cm   textit 2     cfoot    rhead  footnotesize 3   rfoot  footnotesize Page  thepage  of  pageref LastPage    renewcommand  headheight  24pt   renewcommand  footrulewidth  0 4pt    usepackage lipsum   provides filler text   begin document   name  Joe Laroo    signature  Joe Laroo    begin letter   To-Address    renewcommand  today   February 16  2009    opening  Opening     thispagestyle fancy   sets the current page style to  fancy  -- must occur  after   opening  lipsum 1-10   just dumps ten paragraphs of filler text   closing  Yours truly     end letter   end document    The  opening command sets the page style to firstpage or empty  so you have to use  thispagestyle after that command

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After I removed    usepackage fontspec   font selecting commands   usepackage xunicode   unicode character macros   usepackage xltxtra    some fixes extras    it seems to have worked  correctly    It may be worth noting that the headers and footers only appear from page 2 onwards  Although I ve tried the fix for this given in the fancyhdr documentation  I can t get it to work either   FYI  MikTeX 2 7 under Vista

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With regard to Brent Longborough s answer  appering only on page 2 onward   perhaps you need to set the  thispagestyle   after  begin document    I wonder if the letter class is setting the first page style to empty

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