Document Classes ⇒ How to highlight header using fancyhdr package.

[centurion555]

Hi all, I'm using the fancyhdr package to get headers on each page of my document. I've successfully created the headers but I am unable to highlight the headers. I want to highlight the headers as shown in attached picture or on second page of this pdf file:

http://homepage.boku.ac.at/imrannad/instruct.pdf

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Centurion555

[Juanjo]

Load fancyhdr and color. Then add to the preamble something like:

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\definecolor{LightGray}{gray}{0.8}
\newcommand{\BigBox}[2][c]{\makebox[\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule][#1]{#2}}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[C]{\addtolength{\fboxsep}{5pt}%
   \colorbox{LightGray}{\BigBox{\sffamily Proceedings ISARS 1998 Vienna}}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

You will surely need to increase the value of \headheight, for example:

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\addtolength{\headheight}{15pt}

[centurion555]

Hi Juanjo,
Thanks a lot. It worked after slight modifications.
Regards, Nadeem

[bkarpuz]

do you mind sharing the codes with us?