There will be small differences as have been mentioned above, and also other tiny things which can change outputs. You will notice it a lot, even the same program run on different systems can shows slight differences - try a compare between RTF files on different systems, you may find that a column shows as different because its a minute fraction off. This is because RTF is an interpreted markup language. Each time it is loaded the Word (or RTF reader) installed on your particular system, with your particular settings, and the output generated by a specific SAS setup on a system, can generate slightly different results. I would suspect with your particular problem that there is a column default hidden behind PDF somewhere which doesn't allow room for the full footnote. Going to be difficult to track it down though. Why not just produce the RTF, then print that from Word to PDF? Alternatively post a small sample data/proc report with your template so that we can re-run locally and see what comes out.
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