Printing to PDF adds printer margins

I have an extremely frustrating problem. I have a large Word doc with a full bleed border. I need to convert it to PDF for printing, but when I try, I get "the footer/margins in Section X are outside the printable area of the page." If I hit "ok," the PDF is created with a white border all the way around (as if it were printed on a printer without bleed capabilities. This doesn't happen to me in Windows. I've looked at all the print settings and am at my wits end. I really don't want to have to re-edit the document in Windows (the formatting changes quite a bit, and it's a 200-pager). What do I have to do to get bleed edges in Acrobat?
FYI - I'm using Word for Mac 2008, Leopard OS X 10.5.2 and Acrobat Pro 8.1.2 (part of CS3)

Yes, it is a problem with Mail when either the message subject or the pdf document (or any other document type) contain accented characters, I believe.
Until Apple fixes this (which worked in previous Leopard versions), I do not use accented characters when I want to send an attached document via Mail.
HTH ;-))

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3890509?start=0&tstart=0
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I have no idea if this is the right forum for my question, but since pdf creation is -- in a way -- printing, I thought I'd start here.
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I'm a Windows user, so I may not have this exactly right, but printing to PDF from Print Booklet on Mac is a two-step process -- first you printto Postscript file using the Acrobat 9 ppd, then you distill the file. I think you'll find more details at InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard

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