I played with header / footer settings on a per document basis and saw a setting, I have never seen before. Perhaps it was there all the time but I did not recognize it.
The option sets the header / footer to the left or right side of the page. The strange thing about is, that the option only appears on Windows 7 and Linux but not on XP.
When you set the direction to “right2left”, a new field ($HFFlags) is created in the document. The field value is set to “R”. When setting the direction to “left2right” the field is removed.
The $HFFlags field also controls the “Print header and footer on first page” option.
I have 3 virtual machines, all running XP. Notes clients 6.5.6, 7.03, and 8.5.1. I only see the ‘Header/Footer direction’ option on 6.5.6, which is also the instance of XP in which I’ve setup a bidrectional language (Hebrew) as an alternative language in at the OS level. I wondered if the Notes client could pick that up? But then I found ‘file>preferences>user preferences>international>bi-directional’ – if you tick the ‘Support right to left languages’ box and restart the client, you toggle the ‘Header/footer direction’ option on and off.
@Stuart: Thank you! Indeed, the option was checked in my preferences.