Aug 28, 2012 Of all the obscure features locked into Microsoft Word, one of the least used is undoubtedly its ability to add a rather wide variety of decorative borders to documents that you’re working with. Unfortunately, that’s one area where Apple apparently decided its Pages program didn’t need to have feature parity, so there’s no real way to. Borders are just another way that you can spice up different elements in your documents. Not only can you add borders of different styles, colors, sizes and art to an entire page, but you can add them to specific sections. To add a border to a section in a document: Select the text you want. Add a border to a page Article; Insert a header or footer Article. Add a border to a page. Word for Office 365 Word for Office 365 for Mac Word for the web Word 2019 Word 2019 for Mac Word 2016. Select Options. Make your changes and select OK. If the page you want to add a border to is in the middle of your document, you must. Describes how to work around a problem where borders in a Word document may not print or be displayed as expected. This problem occurs because the printer driver may define the area of the page that contains the border as a nonprintable area. Dec 31, 2019 Adding a Border to a Single Page. Microsoft Word will usually apply border styles to each page, but you can apply a page border to an individual page or exclude certain pages like your front page. To do this, enter the “Page Border” settings menu (Layout/Design/Page Layout Page Borders) and click the “Apply To” drop-down menu. An old-school paper flyer can have a big impact if you put it in the right location and make it fun to look at. The fun part comes from different typefaces, images, and other visual elements, including a neat border. Microsoft Word makes it possible to add a border to bring your whole flyer together. Use it to apply a single- or multi-line border, a more decorative one, or one made from Clip Art.

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Word 2010 borders are popular for pages, as well as for paragraphs, although this Word application can often be frustrating because the border may not print completely. Here’s a solution to the putting-a-border-around-a-page-of-text puzzle:

1Put the insertion pointer on the page you want to border.

For example, you might put it on the first page in your document.

2Click the Border command button and choose Borders and Shading from the bottom of the menu that appears.

The Borders and Shading dialog box appears.

3Click the Page Border tab.

Whoa! The Page Border tab looks exactly like the Borders tab.

4Choose the border you want by using a preset box or picking a line style, color, and width.

You can also select a funky art pattern from the Art drop-down list.

5Select which pages you want bordered from the Apply To drop-down list.

For example, you can select Whole Document to put borders on every page. To select the first page, choose the This Section–First Page Only item.

6Click the Options button.

The Border and Shading Options dialog box appears.

7From the Measure From drop-down list, select the Text option.

The Edge of Page option just doesn’t work with most printers. Text does.

8To add more 'air' between your text and the border, increase the values in the Margin area.

Adding to the Margin amounts gives you a border that looks like it’s based on the edges of the page, even though it’s using the Text option.

9Click OK.

The Border and Shading Option dialog box closes.

10Click OK to close the Borders and Shading dialog box.

Your page has a border, and that border will print in its entirety.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

You can obviously set different border styles, including colors,l ine width, art, shadows and what not.

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