The 1" footer margin puts the *bottom* of the footer at 1", which means that
the page number pushes up into the body text. If you want a 1" bottom margin
for the body, you need to set the footer margin sufficiently smaller to
allow for the height of the page number. If the page number is 12-point
Times New Roman, that means you need to allow a minimum of 14.4 points.
Since 1" = 72 points, that means that the footer margin should be no more
than 0.8" (14.4 points = 0.2").
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"Terri" wrote in message
...
I have Layout, From edge, Footer, 1" and Margins, Bottom 1" which I
assumed
would print the Footer at 1" but that is not what is happening. The
Footer
is just a centered page number so there is no additional content that is
pushing up the footer. So is that what you mean?
"Jezebel" wrote:
Go to the Layout tab on the Page Setup dialog. Set the Footer 'From
edge'
value. That's the distance from the bottom of the paper to the bottom of
the
footer text. (To be precise, to the bottom of the text plus any 'Space
after' value for your footer style.)
The bottom margin you've been setting is the distance from the bottom of
the
paper to the bottom of the body text; but Word increases the value as
necessary so your text doesn't over run the footer. You normally want
the
bottom margin value to be sufficiently larger than the footer value to
allow
for the height of the footer plus the distance between the footer and
the
text.
"Terri" wrote in message
...
The dissertation style requires the bottom margin be 1 inch from the
bottom
of the page, and the page number be at the top of the 1 inch bottom
margin,
so it is 1 inch from the bottom of the page. I have set the Footer
Margin
in
Page Setup to 1 inch, and the Page margin to 1 inch which I thought
was
the
right way to set the margin to get the required margin. However, now
I
have
a 2 inch margin at the page number and the text starts one line
directly
above the page number. What is the right way to get the bottom margin
I
need? Are there other settings within Word, printer settings or ??
that
could affect the footer margin?
I've checked the usual Help commands and Assistance as well as
Knowledge
Base and haven't found an answer.