I would guess that some copying and pasting went on here. Word is very bad
about adding empty paragraphs in headers and footers when you do that.
Display nonprinting characters (by pressing Ctrl+* or clicking the Show/Hide
¶ button on the Standard toolbar) and you will probably see more than one
paragraph mark (¶). Delete all but one, and your footer should be back to
normal size.

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"Noel S Pamfree" wrote in message
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I have written a document with a different front page footer so that the
numbering of pages doesn't begin until the second page.

What is strange is that the footer on the first page appears much higher
than those on subsequent pages.

Can anyone tell me how to alter the first page footer?

Noel