I doubt you will be able to find a good way to prevent change to the header
unless you use preprinted paper, but as long as you really mean "unchanged"
then I would probably create the header as an image, i.e. the only change a
user can /inadvertently/ make is to delete or perhaps move/resize the
header.
I would probably set up the footer fields as { DOCPROPERTY } fields using
custom properties so that all the site/user really has to do is do a one-off
modification of the property values using the built-in dialog box.
Just my 2c worth.

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Peter Jamieson
> I've got the problem of needing to furnish a Letterhead
> document for about 2000 users in over 50 locations. The
> Header info must remain unchanged while allowing the
> customization of their individual information (Phone,
> address) in the footer AND allowing them to use the
> letterhead as a merge document. How can I proceed?