"A footer is outside the print area"

In Word, go to the Format menu, and select Document. You set the dimensions here, including Headers and Footers. Then go to Page Setup (at the bottom of this same menu) and make sure the correct paper size is selected.

thanks - this worked. One thing that I wouldn't have realized had you not directed the user to look there, is that the type of paper "US Letter" had 2 sub-options - "Letter" and "Borderless 8.5X11". Selecting the "Borderless 8.5X11" solved the issue. Thanks again!

Hi I had a similar problem, and couldn't find a 'borderless option' in the page menu.

What worked for me was File-> page setup-> choose 'microsoft word' from top dropdown -> margins -> page setup - paper size -> manage custom paper size -> click '+' to create new custom size -> under non-printable area choose user defined -> set all attributes to '0' -> OK .

You might still find bottom border missing when you print, but save as 'pdf' , this time you it won't through any error. Then print from pdf, you should get the border.

Hope it works!!

Help !! You suggested to choose "proper page size". I am formatting my book which should 6x9 inches . It is my size, I must stick with it. I can eliminate the problem of " outside printable area " by increasin bottom margin, but it 'eating up' a chunk of the text and the page looks empty at the bottom. Please help, I am spending hours and hours. Thank you Word 2011 for MAC

Tamara

Recently i had same issue with Word for Mac 2016

convert your doc using any online word to pdf converter

for eg https://smallpdf.com/word-to-pdf

that's work for me i hope it also be helpful to anyone who had this issue

I did not want to change to "US Letter Borderless", since I'm not sure my printer can print the full area of the page, but I changed it anyway, saved the file and the message went away. Interestingly enough, I then changed it back to "US Letter" (which is what it was originally), saved the file and the message is still no longer coming out. Seems fixed now with the default borders.

This was very helpful - Thank you! This was the best and most helpful advice!

What worked for me on Mac Word 2011 to save as Adobe Acrobat 2017 PDF was as follows:

Open MS Mac 2011 word document. Under MS Word main menu -> File -> Page Setup -> Paper Size -> Manage Custom Sizes -> Non Printable Area (User defined) -> set all to "0" in and save as OK.

Save file in Word and then save as PDF and no error messages. Check PDF in Adobe....and Voila! The page numbers show up at the bottom.

Thanks for your tip naren543!

Thank you so much for guiding me to the Borderless option 🙂 It solved the problem I've been struggling with!

This really helped me out thank you so much!

The new version of Word does not have a "format" section. In the Word menu, go to Insert - header and footer - then alter the distance of the footer from bottom or header from top

Thank you so much this really helped me!

Thank you very much. This helped me.

Ahhhh, thank you so much!!! This was driving me nuts! The fix you described worked perfectly for me 🙂

I got the best way to solve this problem. Double click the footer. Click and Drag the page number UP a little bit!!!!!

Check out this tutorial: How to fix pdf problem in word (Mac) - YouTube