BORDERS FOR WORD 2016 HOW TO
How to Use Page Borders in Word: Instructions Instructions on How to Use Page Borders in Word by Opening the Borders and Shading Dialog Box To apply your page border when you are finished, click the “OK” button at the bottom of the “Borders and Shading” dialog box. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Apply a Page Border After Customizing It After setting any desired border options, if needed, click the “OK” button to apply them and return to the “Page Border” tab within the “Borders and Shading” dialog box. Note that if you select to measure the margin from the edge of the page, only the “Always display in front” option is available. Then check any desired page border alignment and display options in the “Options” section you want to apply. How to Use Page Borders in Word – Instructions: A picture of a user customizing additional, optional page border settings in Word within the “Border and Shading Options” dialog box. Then enter the desired measurement from the selected reference point into the “Top,” “Bottom,” “Left” and “Right” spinner boxes in this section.
Then choose whether to measure the margin distance of the page border from the document text or the edge of the page by selecting the desired choice from the “Measure from” drop-down in the “Margin” section. If needed, to set border and shading options for the page border, click the “Options…” button to open the “Border and Shading Options” dialog box. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Set Border, Shading, Alignment, and Display Options You can apply it to the “Whole document,” “This section” only, to “This section – First page only,” or to “This section – All except first page” by making the desired choice from this drop-down menu. Next, for all page border styles, use the “Apply to” drop-down to select to which parts of the document to apply the page border. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Choose Where to Apply the Page Border Unlike the line-style borders, however, you cannot apply multiple different pictures to a single page border. Each time you click a line you will either apply or remove the picture line style.
You can either directly click the lines in the preview or you can click the buttons that represent the different borders, which appear below and to the left of the preview. Then click the sides of the page to which to apply or remove the picture border in the “Preview” section to the right. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Apply a Custom Art BorderĪlternatively, to create a custom picture border, use the “Art” drop-down and “Width” spinner box to choose the picture border to apply. How to Use Page Borders in Word – Instructions: A picture of a user customizing the page border settings in Word within the “Page Border” tab of the “Borders and Shading” dialog box. Note that you cannot apply an “Art” border in combination with the line styles and you cannot apply a different “Setting,” like “Shadow,” to a custom line-style page border. Simply repeat this process of selecting line styles and then clicking the desired borders to create your own custom line style, which also appears in the “Setting” section. Each time you click a line you will either apply or remove the currently selected line style. Then click the sides of the page to which to apply or remove that line style in the “Preview” section to the right. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Apply Different Line Styles to Each Side of a PageĪlternatively, to create a custom line-style page border, which lets you choose different line styles to apply to the different sides of the page, select a line style from the “Style,” “Color,” and “Width” drop-downs. If you chose one of the line style borders, you can also click either the “Shadow” or “3D” preset settings in the “Setting” section to apply that effect to the line borders, too. You can see this preset in the “Setting” section. After selecting either of these, a preview of the page border appears in the “Preview” area to the right with the default “Box” preset setting applied. Alternatively, to apply a picture border, use the “Art” drop-down and “Width” spinner box. To set the line style of the border lines, use the “Style,” “Color,” and “Width” drop-downs. How to Use Page Borders in Word to Set the Page Border Line Styles
Doing this then opens the “Borders and Shading” dialog box and displays the “Page Border” tab within it. Then click the “Page Borders” button in the “Page Background” button group. To use page borders in Word, click the “Design” tab in the Ribbon. How to Use Page Borders in Word: Overview How to Use Page Borders in Word by Opening the Borders and Shading Dialog Box