header and footer and text margins

I have a standard format of letter template that I want to develop, with text, header, and footer areas, each with different margins.

 

When I set this up, the footer is narrower than the text, and any mod to one affects them all proportionately.

 

I cannot get my footer, which is different for the first page, to the same width as the text.

 

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A page (actually a Section) of a document can only have one set of margins.  To get a different effect in the headers\footers, you can change the indentation of the paragraphs used in those areas of the document.
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I agree that you can only have one set of margins in a Section.

You could set separate styles to use in the first page header, first page footer, and continuation pages. The indents can be inside or outside the margins.

Margins and Indents in Word

Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013


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