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We have several projects that we merge when we build our Help system. Our output is HTML5. There are about four thousand topics in all.
We now have a need to put a copyright notice at the bottom of each topic. I didn't find anything in the Help that addressed this for HTML files (everything I found was addressing this issue for Print output.)
I have created a snippet that puts the copyright text in a one cell table with a colored edge for the table top that serves to separate the text from the topic text. This seems to work fine, but I would now need to insert this snippet into each topic.
Another thought would be to create a topic template that includes a copyright notice at the bottom and uses a variable for the copyright dates. But I would need to associate the template with the topics, and I'm not sure how to do that for an existing topic.
Questions:
Have I missed something, - is there another better way to create a "footer" for copyright text for an HTML file?
Using either the topic template or snippet approach, would there be a way to automate adding this to topics?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I only have a moment, so I hope I can give you enough guidance to get going...

This is very easily achieved. You can put a copyright notice at the bottom of the master page that is associated with the Help target. The copyright notice will then appear on all the topics in the Help system. If some topics are associated directly with a different master page, put the copyright notice on that master page, too.

Hope this is enough to help. Toodles!

Thank you so much, Nita, for your response. Based on what you said, I just set up a Master Page with the copyright info below the body proxy, associated the Master Page with the HTML5 Target, compiled the Help, and voila the copyright is showing up on each topic!
Kathy