Your border will appear. Select the border, choose Format from the top tool bar and click Picture. Note : Format Picture commands will not appear unless picture is selected. The border is now free to drag around the page. You can resize it by dragging the corners. To maintain proportions hold Shift while resizing. Note : This border is a low resolution image and will appear blurry when enlarged. To add a text box select Insert from the top tool bar, then choose Text Box. Click the page where you would like the words to be and your text box will appear, then drag the text box into the center of the border and resize it.
Download Article Explore this Article methods. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Method 1. Open your Word document. Double-click the Word document to which you want to add borders.
This will open the document in Microsoft Word. If you haven't yet created your Word document, open Word, click Blank document , and create the document as needed before proceeding. Click the Home tab. It's at the top of the Word window. Doing so will open the correct toolbar here. Select content.
Click and drag your mouse across the text or image s around which you want to place a border. Find the "Borders" button. This button resembles a square divided into four smaller squares; you'll find it in the "Paragraph" section of options in the toolbar, just right of the paint bucket icon.
Skip this step on a Mac. Click Borders and Shading…. It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu. On a Mac, you'll find this option in the middle of the Format drop-down menu. Select a border setting. In the left-most column, click the border option that you want to use. For example, if you want a simple border to go all the way around your text, you would click Box here. Select a border style. In the "Style" column, scroll down until you find the border style you want to use, then click the style.
If needed, you can also change the border's color and width from the "Color" and "Width" drop-down menus, respectively. Click OK. It's at the bottom of the window. Doing so will apply your border to the selected text or picture.
Method 2. Position your cursor to create a new section. If you don't want to add a border to every page in the document, place your mouse cursor at the bottom of the page that comes before the page on which you want to add the border.
As you can see, the defaults are 1 point top and bottom and 4 points left and right. The maximum for any setting is 31 points not quite half an inch. Border and Shading Options dialog with default settings. Border and Shading Options dialog with custom settings. When you add a border to several paragraphs of text, you may find that the side borders do not line up and Word puts each paragraph in its own box. This is because the distance from text is measured from the actual paragraph edge.
If you have applied a left or right indent other than a first-line or hanging indent , the side border s will be indented accordingly. Uneven indents result in separate Box borders. Conversely, if consecutive paragraphs have the same formatting and have the same border style applied, they will all be in the same box. You can apply an Inside border to separate the paragraphs, but if you want them to be actually in separate boxes, there are two ways to accomplish this: Insert an unbordered paragraph between them.
Format the line spacing of the paragraph to be Exactly the distance you want between the boxes. This assumes that the two paragraphs do not have any Spacing Before or After. Give one of them an infinitesimal indent.
If you press Alt while dragging the left or right margin marker on the ruler, you can move it as little as 0. In most cases, this can be accomplished by selecting White as the border color, but of course if you have a colored background or have added shading to the paragraph as well, you will have to match that color. Bordered paragraph text conforms to the page margins. This means that the borders must extend into the margins. Presumably this is by design.
You can select Custom , but as soon as you click on any of the buttons in the Preview, all are turned on or off. In other words, this border is all or nothing, though at least you do get the same selection of line styles, colors, and weights. Borders and Shading dialog for selected text.
If you want to apply a border to just one or more sides of the text, see this article. When the selection is in a table, the Borders tab of the Borders and Shading dialog has a different appearance from what you saw when adding paragraph or text borders, providing additional options. Borders and Shading dialog for a table. Important Note: Even when you have removed the table borders, you will probably still see lines outlining the cells.
That is because Word also, by default, displays table gridlines. If you have text boundaries displayed Tools Options View: Text boundaries , you will see dotted lines outlining the cells even if you are not displaying table gridlines. Text boundaries are displayed only in Print Layout and Web Layout views. It is generally a good idea, in working with tables, to display either gridlines which display in all views or text boundaries, but even if you display neither, you can recognize a table if you have nonprinting characters displayed because you will see the end-of-cell and end-of-row markers instead of paragraph marks.
The Apply to setting in the dialog will vary depending on whether you have the insertion point in a table or have the entire table selected , as in the first screen shot above, or have only one or more cells selected. The Preview will also reflect the selection of a single cell, two cells horizontally or vertically, or four or more cells. Borders and Shading dialog for selected cells. Borders and Shading dialog for a single cell.
The biggest difference, however, is in the available presets. As shown, when a single table cell is selected, they are the same as for a paragraph. But when the entire table or more than one cell is selected, the presets change to None , Box , All , Grid , and Custom.
None and Custom are self-explanatory, and Box works the same as for paragraphs: whether applied to a cell or cells or an entire table, it puts a box border around the entire selection. All is also pretty straightforward: it applies a border of the currently selected style, weight, and color to every cell in the selection.
The Grid preset is a little confusing, however. Instead, you must first select one of the inside borders horizontal or vertical , which will give it the same weight as the outside border, select the new weight, and then click the same border again. At that point you can click the other inside border to apply the same weight. On the Borders flyout and toolbar, they are labeled Diagonal Up Border and Diagonal Down Border , and they are the two buttons that are disabled when the insertion point is in paragraph text because they are usable only in tables.
What those buttons do is create diagonal lines that intersect your text like this:. They do not actually split your cell diagonally; they just create the appearance of doing so. If you want to further this deception, you will need to format text accordingly:. You will have noticed that the Options… button is disabled.
If you are coming to Word from WordPerfect, you may be accustomed to seeing a distinct difference between a bottom border on one cell and a top border on the one below. But you may also have found that this arrangement often made it very difficult to align intersecting borders properly.
Word works differently: a bottom border on one cell is in exactly the same location as a top border on the cell below. This is normally a good thing, but every now and then Word, in its infinite wisdom, will decide that the border you applied as a bottom border is actually at least in part a top border on the cell below, making it impossible to remove it by turning off the Bottom Border button on the Borders palette.
At such times you must just shrug and move on to the cell below and remove the top border. Tables continued from one page to another often lose the bottom border of the last row; sometimes you can restore it by explicitly applying a bottom border to that row not just borders between rows.
Word has a way of perversely interpreting a border between rows as being the top of one row or the bottom of another, but not both. Those last two border styles mentioned above? Although the shadowbox effect they create can be quite attractive, these styles achieve it by applying borders selectively and by adding 0.
This can be insidious: If you apply one of these styles and then change to a different line style, the increased cell spacing remains in effect, and you get a double border. You may have noticed in all the screen shots above a button labeled Show Toolbar. If you click this button or the corresponding Tables and Borders button on the Standard toolbar, you will open the floating Tables and Borders toolbar. Standard toolbar showing Tables and Borders button.
Tables and Borders toolbar. Although this toolbar is by default floating, you can, if you like, dock it at the top or bottom of your screen to get it out of the way. Docking it at the side is not recommended; if you do that, the dropdown list boxes become buttons that bring up the Borders and Shading dialog.
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