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Hi, everyone. This post is a response to a comment posted earlier this week that asked a few questions about creating a document for a custom paper size in Word. Here are the questions I'm addressing:

1 - How can you get something to print very close to the bottom of the page? That is, if you need information to print very close to the bottom of the page (so that you set bottom or footer margins to zero or something very small) and get a warning from Word that your margins are outside of the printable boundaries of the page ... what do you do?

2 - How can you print one page longer than the others\lower footer on the page than other pages in the document?

2 - Can you select a position on the printed page from Word, when using a custom paper size setting (such as 5 x 8) but printing to standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper?

First of all, when you get the error message that the margins are outside of the printable area, it is most likely a limitation on your printer's part - in which case, content outside of the printable area won't show up in Print Preview or when printed, so ignoring the error isn't going to fix it. You can test this if you have a virtual printer (such as Adobe Acrobat PDF) installed. Notice that, if you select Adobe PDF as your printer - you won't get the error message, because Word recognizes Acrobat as being able to print to a bleed. (also, keep in mind that you have separate header and footer margins on the Layout tab of Page Setup which might help you set up your footers more easily than adjusting page margins on the Margins tab).

For printing one page longer than the others, or having the footer lower on the page for one page than the others, all you need is a section break. (On the Insert menu select Break and then select the Next Page section break option to insert a section break at the end of the page before you want to change the page layout formatting). Paper size, margins (including gutters), and headers and footers, are all section formatting -- so you only need to insert a section break before you want to change it.

As for telling Word where on the paper to start printing when using a different paper size in the printer than in Page Setup - that one is a no go from Word's perspective. When you set the paper size in Page Setup in Word - Word understands that to be the size paper you are using in your printer. There are workarounds that might help (depending upon what you need) - such as choosing 2 pages per sheet on the margins tab of the Page Setup dialog box -- or, depending upon your printer, you might have the option to print multiple pages per sheet or otherwise scale content beyond Word's scale to fit option in the Print dialog box (click Properties in the Print dialog box to see if your printer has any options that would help for this).

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