Hi gsquarenew,
Thanks for reaching to us and appreciate your patience.
1. Please follow our documentation to modify footer’s content https://xtemos.com/docs-topic/set-up-footer/
2. Then, you can create a dev site and import any template there. Devsite – also called a Staging platform where you can test issues, enable/disable features/plugins thus such changes will affect the main site. The below article will help you to create it:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/
Finally, with the help of the import functionality of Elementor you can export the template, more detail is here: https://elementor.com/help/template-library/
Regards,