The page borders of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page

Hi

Having created a document using Word 2010 for PC, utilising a standard MS border format, I'm now having problems when attempting to 'Save to PDF' from Word for Mac 2011. The document contains nothing more complex than bullet points, tabs, italics, bold and some left and right alignment.

The original Word for PC doc saved the borders perfectly when converting to PDF and they were all displayed in the PDF doc. Since the original doc has been edited using Word for Mac I now cannot get the document to save to PDF without losing the bottom border on all pages. I receive the error message as stated in the question title.

I have not changed any of the borders, margins, headers or footers sections. Simply opened the original Word for PC doc using Word for Mac and made some edits.

The following suggested solutions have not worked satisfactorily as they throw out the entire documents format, extending its length significantly. Commentary on affect of solution to my doc below each suggestion:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/mac-word-to-pdf-template-error-a-footer-of-section/42a82856-3f17-41d3-ba4e-e56fa30988b1

The answer from Cam Church didn't work as it's not a header footer issue, I experiemented with their suggestion to test it. Likewise the answers from the MVP's related to footers.

The video from AnsHul particially worked, which involves setting up a customised paper size through Format>Docs>Page Set Up>Manage Custom Sizes. When saving to PDF I could see the bottom border, but the rest of the documents format was significantly thrown out. The suggested solution seemed to make the docs margins wider, therefore increase the on screen page width, which logically one would expect to create more space on each line, therefore shortening the length of the doc. In reality, the pages looked wider, but content extended several more cm down the document pushing certain lines on to new pages, which is unacceptable.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/set-outside-the-printable-area/4b558316-0267-4ebc-8a3b-382d0cd9e45b

None of my Border and Shading options were set to 0.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/printing-page-border/8c805a1c-06bb-4b18-a7f2-dfa6954e6d76

No answer was given as such, but I understand what the MVP was stating. In order for this answer to be helpful to me I would need the maximum margin settings allowed, so as to still be able to see a lower border, when saving to PDF. I know saving to PDF has a similar affect as using a printer, but I have no printers associated with the Mac.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2008-macword/a-footer-section-is-outside-of-a-printable-area/0891f06a-5826-4203-a76f-249c75528c11

Again, footer related. I did experiement, and when prompted used the 'fix' option that I'd read about previously in other post. Yet after using fix, when going to print preview and PDF preview, the bottom border was still missing.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/exporting-to-pdf-cuts-off-some-content-that-is/b3d8fca0-1fac-427d-9040-d631e1c96ad9?page=1

This seemed like a similar scenario to the one I face. The suggestion from Daniel the MVP was the same as the video from AnsHul in the first link. Yes it worked and I can see the bottom border, but it unacceptably throws out the formatting of the document. Seeming to created more space, but in reality lengthening the document considerably.

Having explored a lot of suggestions and options I'm now at a loss as to how to fix this issue of the bottom border not being visible when saving to PDF.

Suggestions welcomed.

Perhaps informing me of the maximum margin settings allowed, so as to still be able to see a bottom border when saving to PDF when using Word for Mac 2011, would be a place to start.