To expand on what Stefan has said, you can adjust the side margins (which I
assume are what you're talking about) using paragraph indents. What is not
always obvious to users is that the indents can be negative, thus allowing
the footer to be *wider* than the document body.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org
