Choosing Border Options | Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))

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Word makes a few assumptions about the way you want to display the borders in your documents. By default, Word applies a small margin to borders you apply to a paragraph and a larger margin to borders for sections and pages. When you add a border to a paragraph, Word adds a 1-point margin to the top and bottom and a 4-point margin along the left and right edges of the border. When you add a page or section border, Word adds a 24-point margin all the way around.

Display the Border options by choosing Format, Borders And Shading. Leave the Borders tab selected if you're changing the options for a paragraph border; if you're working with a document or section border, click the Page Border tab. Then click the Options button in the lower right corner of the dialog box. The Border And Shading Options dialog box appears, as Figure 24-7 shows.

figure 24-7. you control border margins and make choices about border alignment in the border and shading options dialog box.

Figure 24-7. You control border margins and make choices about border alignment in the Border And Shading Options dialog box.

To make changes to the border margins, click in the box you want to change and type the new value, or use the arrows to increase or decrease the value shown.

Word automatically measures the margin beginning at the edge of the page, but you can change that setting so that the measurement reflects spacing between surrounding text and the selected border. To make this change, click the Measure From down arrow and choose Text.

The other options in the Border And Shading Options dialog box are available only if you're working with a page or section border. By default, Word includes any headers and footers inside the bordered area and, also by default, enables the Always Display In Front check box, which causes the border to be displayed in front of any text or graphic objects that might overlap it. If you have other borders or tables within the bordered section, the Align Paragraph Borders And Table Edges With Page Borders check box will also be available to you. If you want Word to align all these borders evenly, select this check box.

After you've finished choosing border options, click OK to close the dialog box; then click OK a second time to return to your document.

Note

If you select a table before you display the Borders And Shading dialog box, your options in the Apply To list will show Paragraph, Table, and Cell.