stormtrooper, by definition, a report footer is not the same thing as a page footer. In design view, from the View Menu, which option do you have checked:
Page Header/Footer, or
Report Header/Footer
if you want it at the end of the report, that would be the report footer option.
now if you're saying you want to have it occur at the bottom of the page, as opposed to the middle of the page (depending on where the detail section ends), this can be done by a little manipulation of the size of the detail section. just stretching out the detail section will work if you have a standard length report, but if it varies in length, this is no good.
Brian Famous
bfamous@ncdoi.net