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Default Footer margin, text margin, and bottom of page problems

You were offered help and declined to accept it. What more do you expect?



"Terri" wrote in message
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Thanks for the helpful attitude

"Jezebel" wrote:

It seems you didn't read any of the posts carefully and to the end, so my
guess is your empirical observations are sloppy too. Perhaps it would be
better if you abandoned your dissertation before you start f***ing up the
real world too.



"Terri" wrote in message
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I have tried dozens of times to fix this problem before going through
this
list to get some solutions for this problem. I am posting this problem
here
because I thought there was something I was overlooking, or there was
some
other setting I was missing. This is a place to get HELP from other
users,
not criticism.

"Jezebel" wrote:

For heaven's sake! Thirty seconds experimenting would answer this.



"Terri" wrote in message
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Do I leave the page margin at 1" as well?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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
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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
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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.