Is there away, inside of Google Documents, of creating a header/footer that has no margins, but to give the body a set of margins? I've set the margins to be 0 for placing a drawing in the header, but I would prefer that the body text not to start at the 0".
Google Docs – Different Margins for Headers and Footers
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Doesn't appear to be so. Google Docs isn't a full-fledged word processor after all.
What happens when text from one page gets pushed over to the other? Do they both get new revision numbers? Is it automatic?
Did you try uploading one of your Word documents and seeing how Google Docs converted it?
You might be able to fake something up by using the footnote feature in a non-standard way. Insert a footnote at the top of the page and the text for it should appear at the bottom of that page.
Whatever way you do it you're going to have to manually update each time.
As of quite recently (24-02-2015) it is possible in Google Documents to have a different header/footer on the first page. Therefore it is only possible to fulfill the second instance you described.
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Headers and Footers - the way you want them
One of your biggest requests (especially those of you who use Docs to write
academic papers) is to be able to customize how headers and footers appear
on the first pages of your documents.
With today’s updates, you can now use different headers and footers on the
first pages of your documents, which comes in handy for:
> Following academic formatting guidelines (e.g. MLA, CMS, APA)
> Starting page numbering on the second page
> Making a title page without headers or footers
After inserting a header or footer in your document you’ll see a new checkbox
--just tick it and you’ll be able to set a different header and footer on the
first page.
There’s also a new Insert > Page Number menu that lets you customize how and
where you start your page numbers--like on the bottom of the second page,
for example.
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It might take a while for the feature to be available as it's being rolled out.
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Yes. Having different margins for both the header and the body is as simple as clicking
Insert>HeaderorFooter, and adjusting the margin arrow to the specifications that you desire. An example screenshot of a Google doc with different margins for the header and body: