You don't change the footer margin; just change the size of the footer. Add
Space Before to the First Page Footer text (or paragraph) to push the
document body up. This will not affect subsequent pages.

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> I have set up footers on a 5 page document w/a different
> first page footer. However, I am unable to adjust the
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> footer margin on the rest of the document. Does anyone
> have any suggestions?