Involuntary Changing Footer and Margin

[briannainkansascity]

Hi! I have a bunch of documents I'm trying to set up with a header and no footer and a .25" margin on all sides. When I save and close the documents, the software adds a footer and changes the margins at the top and bottom to .5

I'm saving it as Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)

Thank you for any assistance,
Brianna

[FJCC]

How exactly are you setting the margins? I just tried making a document with the layout you describe and saving it as a .doc and the formatting was preserved.

This is off topic, but why are you saving in that ancient format?

[Rizwan Akhtar]

It sounds like the software is reverting to default settings. Try saving your .25" margins and header-only layout as the default template, and turn off any auto-adjust or compatibility mode options before saving.

[RoryOF]

Do I remember correctly that OpenOffice does not save margins smaller than the installed printer requires?

[Jan_J]

@briannainkansascity
Try use native .odt, then check

@RoryOF
Libre Writer asks to confirm narrow margins, but saves them correctly. Attached 0 cm example generated by LO 25.2.

I do not have Apache OO installed, cannot verify.

[MrProgrammer]

Do I remember correctly that OpenOffice does not save margins smaller than the installed printer requires?

OpenOffice AOO 4.1.7 on MacOS 13.7.6 also asks to confirm narrow margins, but saves the values I ask it to use. This makes sense, since OpenOffice does not know what printer may eventually print the document.