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The techniques you've learned for adding a border to a section or object in your document can be used to add a border to the entire page, as well. Start the process, as usual, by choosing Format, Borders And Shading. When the Borders And Shading dialog box appears, click the Page Border tab.
The only visual difference is the addition of the Art drop-down list (covered in the next section), but you can make all your border choices, and the border will be applied to the entire page. Here's the process:
Figure 24-5. The page border settings you select are applied to all pages in your document.
Tip - Skip the first page border
When you add a page border, Word applies the border to all the pages in your document. What if you want to skip the border on one page? To suppress the display of the border for first pages, choose Format, Borders And Shading, click the Page Border tab, click the Apply To down arrow, and select This Section – All Except First Page.
Another feature, known in earlier versions of Office as BorderArt, enables you to add an artistic touch to entire pages in your document. Special graphics are placed in patterns—both black and white and color—and used to border the page. To apply an art page border, follow these steps:
Figure 24-6. The page border settings you select are applied to all pages in your document.
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I Accidentally Created Separate Tables
You've selected the text you want to surround with a border, but when you create the border, Word divides the selection and draws one border around the heading and another around the text. How do you combine both borders into one rectangular border? There are two workarounds for this problem: First, try selecting a larger section that extends at least one line both before and after the item you want to border. Then select the border as you would normally. If the border's still breaking the text into two separate boxes, copy the information in the second box, place the insertion point following the line of text where the break occurs, and press Shift+Enter to add a "soft" line break, and press Ctrl+V to paste. You might have to do a little reformatting to get your information to look right, but this should resolve the border break problem.