I am using Excel 2002, but this seems to be a problem for me with Word 2002
as well. I want to format my footer with a top border (i.e., there should be
a border-line just over the footer and between it and the rest of the page.

I seem to remember being able to do this. With Word, I can format the footer
with a box around it, but that looks awful. I just want a nice descrete line
over the footer to separate it from the body of the page.

Clicking the Text Format Tool while in headers/footers only formats the
font, its size, underline/bold/italics, etc. No border lines are available as
options.

I've checked Help and the various FAQs but can't find anything on this
subject, although it would seem to me to be a common request.

Thanks for any help you can give me.