Margins, footer, TOC issues

I have 2 issues formatting my newsletter. After going through forum postings for the last year and experimenting a bit, my need of having a TOC entry without visible Heading text has gotten a workaround. Apparently doing anything with Headings and text boxes will never yield a TOC entry so the workaround is to have the Heading text color be white (r whatever the background color is).
The other issue(s) involves margins (and possibly having a header without having a footer). I am using a 'mailer' page as the last page of the newsletter.
The document bottom margin/footer space ends up being an inch. This makes the information (return address and Bulk Rate permit) further down the page than I like.
The header on the 'mailer' page caused me to think and investigate a lot when the header info from the other pages of the document didn't carry over to the 'mailer' pager. I eventually discovered that this was a result of the setting in Layout manager > Section > Configuration Use - previous header & footers. This makes sense so that the footer can be blank and not appear below the address information.
So, does anyone have an idea/workaround so that my last page (the 'mailer' page) does not have this inch margin?
TIA

I don't understand why the half-page of content is upside down. The person who does our church newsletter now does that. Of course, she uses Publisher! :-p I always left it right side up because when I get to the last page of the newsletter, I have to turn the page around if it goes the other way.

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I guess my main complaint/need is for my page to look consistent regardless of screen size, browser or system.
If you could take a look, I would greatly appreciate it.
Your expertise and time is greatly appreciated. I hope I was clear enough, but please let me know if there is any confusion.
http://www.saintleo.edu/PortalLanding/PortalSplash.html
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JK

1. Create a div around your content, give it a width and margin: 0 auto;
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