An inch is unusually large, but see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...sDontPrint.htm

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"BrianB" wrote in message
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I believe I have an answer though: it would appear that Word (possibly in
conjunction with the print driver) has decided NOT to print anything below
the 1" point on the page. If the text goes all the way to that point then
it
will not print anything from the footer (I tried straight text). If the
text
of the page stops before the 1" point (say 1.5") then the footer is
printed
AT 1" (even if the footer is set to .5" or .75").
I concluded this after setting a page with a hard page break and setting
up
a text footer of "1" (for page 1) and attempting to print on top of my
already printed page one text. The text stopped at 1" and the footer was
set
to .75". The footer kept printing on top of the last line.....
Unfortunatlely, solution was to up the text margin to 1" and let the
footer
print at 1". Fortunately, it was only a 9th grade Science paper; though
in
the future the college prof may not approve