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As the manual says...

It is common practice to have on each sheet of a drawing a header block which shows details such as the design and sheet titles, the document, revision and page numbers, and the design's author. In order that you have full control over how this information is presented, the header block is defined as a symbol library entry called HEADER.

...but where is it?

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Eeeeeeeeeeeasy. It only took me four hours to find it originally!

Within a design sheet select "2D Graphics Symbol Mode" - the icon is an 'S' in a green box, next to the line/rectangle/circle graphics. Either click the P at the top of the (currently empty) list box or double click in the box itself. This opens the Pick Symbols window. HEADER is found in the SYSTEM library, between DPST_1 and INVERTER (not that I'm questioning your spelling ability). Double click header then ESC or close the Pick Symbols window.

Place a Header somewhere on the sheet. You can't edit the default header so you have make your own. You can, in fact, make your own from scratch without doing any of what I said above, but it's a bit easier to start somewhere. Right click on the header and then DECOMPOSE. This will break the header into its constituent parts. Create, destroy, add rude words, do what you like (you've seen the table in the Help files following your quoted text for the '@' keywords). When you're happy with your new header, highlight the whole thing, right click then select MAKE SYMBOL. Give it a name and you're finished.

To get it back you find it in the USERSYM library, not the SYSTEM library.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks - I have managed to make a new HEADER and use it. How do I get rid of the old one? I cannot select it. \$\endgroup\$ Jan 27, 2015 at 11:21
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    \$\begingroup\$ You can't delete it from the library without a "DOS based library tool" or whatever Proteus call it. I've never bothered with modifying core libs because it's probably more hassle than it's worth. But if you're talking about getting rid of a header from a layout - again you can't. You have to make your own template. \$\endgroup\$ Jan 27, 2015 at 11:42
  • \$\begingroup\$ What a hassle... \$\endgroup\$ Jan 27, 2015 at 11:44
  • \$\begingroup\$ What I have done is just lay the new header over the old one. A bodge, but visually it works \$\endgroup\$ Jan 27, 2015 at 11:55
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yes it's a hassle, but the point of a template is that you only have to spend an hour doing it once, then it's there every time you need it with one click of a button. \$\endgroup\$ Jan 27, 2015 at 13:06

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