Acrobat Help | Add headers and footers to PDFs

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/add-headers-footers-pdfs.html

The problem is that when Acrobat adds a header it does so in a OCG (Optional Content Group) with a fixed, pre-defined name ("Headers/Footers"), and so it can only edit (or remove) that specific one.
I agree it would have been much better to use a dynamic OCG name ("Headers/Footers1", "Headers/Footers2", etc.), and then allow the user to select which one to edit/remove with a simple dialog window. Maybe you can suggest such a feature to Adobe here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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