Adjust the Header/Footer Margins in Word January 25, 2012

These instructions are for Word 2007 or 2010 but can also be performed in earlier versions.

You can easily adjust the page margins in a Word document by click on the Page Layout tab and then click Margins in the Page Setup group.

What if you need to adjust the margins for the Header and or Footer of the document?

1.  Click the Page Layout tab
2. Click the marker to the right of Page Setup
    
3. Click on the Layout tab of the resulting dialog box
   
4. Adjust the header and/or footer distance From edge (that would be the distance from the top/bottom edge of the paper)
5.  Click OK