Last updated: December 2019
Here’s a question i got from a colleague:
I am using Microsoft Word to prepare a summary document for a project i am about to hand at university. My question is related to adding borders into Word.. Is there a way to create a boxed page and put it in my document? I need to have an outside decorative four sided border in all my doc pages for the project review.
For adding borders, you need first to access 'Design' from the toolbar in Word 2016. And then you can select “Page Borders” in the Page Background group. Set the Style of the Border. Select This Section – First Page Only. You have now successfully added a border to the first page of your Word Document. If you would like to add a border to a different page, follow the above steps up to Step 5, select ‘This Section’ rather than ‘This Section – First page only’. Place the insertion pointer on the page you intend to put a border. You may place it on the 1st page in your file. Click on the border order switch and pick borders and also shading coming from the end of the menu that appears. Click on the page Border button. Learn how to create and apply a custom border in Microsoft Word.Creating your own custom border can be done by using a saved image on your computer and placi. Unlike Publisher, Word does not offer a way to create custom Border Art, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add a custom border to your page. Here are two ways to approach the task, depending on the clip art you have available. Using a clip art border. Using an individual clip art picture. Note: This article was written for Word 2003 and earlier.
Yes, tou can definitely add a custom box border in your Word document pages and glad that we can help. Note that you can define several border styles and apply them to different sections of your doc, so that the for example, your first page has a custom look and feel. Read further for the detailed procedure.
Insert custom page border to Word
- Open your Word document, click on the Border drop box in the paragraph ribbon and select Borders and Shading.
- Select the Page border, in the setting select how your border should be.
- Click on your preferred options: None, Box, Shadow, 3-D.
- Also we can use the Custom option where we can choose where the border line should be in the page.
- The selection can be done with the use of buttons available in the Preview option.
- Style option allows us to choose how the lines should be, like dotted lines , double lines and so on.
- Color lets us to choose the color of the border line, Automatic color will be Black.
- Width is the Border line width and can be adjusted accordingly to our opinion.
- Art helps us to decorate the page border with some arts.
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Applying Page borders to each page
- Applying page borders can also be done in the same Borders and Shading by selecting the Apply to drop down box below the preview.
- Whole document allows us to use the same border in the each page of the document.
- This section allows us to only use the border for the particular section till we close the document, so the next time we use the document will not be inserted with a page border.
- This section – first page only allows to insert the page border in the first page for the particular section.
- This section – all except first page allows to insert page border to all pages except first page for the particular section.
That’s it, we just added a border to our word document.
Add Word borders using Macros
A reader asked me whether he could use Visual Basic for Applications in order to work with Borders.
A complete walk through of VBA goes beyond the scope of this post, but here is a simple script that will allow you to automatically set a triple lined border in your document first section.
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[code]
Sub AddBorders
ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Borders.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleTriple
End Sub
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You can obviously set different border styles, including colors,l ine width, art, shadows and what not.
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Hope it helps!