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> The changes are obviously taking effect, because my new text appears
> in the footer of the printed body pages - but the same problem of
> the old footers printing underneath is still occurring.

Wait a minute, are you saying that you get both the new footer *and*
the old footer, displayed at different vertical positions?
There are only two possible explanations to that:
1. Your master pages do contain the old footer text too, but you
   somehow missed them when you entered the new ones. That is,
   you have *two* text frames at the bottom of your master pages
   with two different footer texts, and you only edited one of
   them. This sounds like a very odd and bad design, and I guess
   you really should have spotted the extra text being there...
2. The extra footer you see on the body pages are actually text
   frames added to the bottom of your body pages, instead of being
   part of your master pages. If you turn on Borders, do you see
   the extra footer on the body pages with a dotted rectangle
   around it? That would indicate a text frame manually added to
   the body page. Select these extra text frames and delete them.

There's a third unlikely explanation: you somehow haven't got the
corrected master page layout applied to your body pages.
For each body page, select Format>Page Layout>Master page usage
(it may have moved in FM6/7). Select the correct Master page
for that body page, and apply it to the body page(s) in question.
Repeat for all different body pages in your document.

NOTE: applying a master page doesn't delete any page elements that
have been manually added on the body pages (like extra unanchored
graphics or text frames).


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/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
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