Add a border to a page
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Go to Design > Page Borders.
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Make selections for how you want the border to look.
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To adjust the distance between the border and the edge of the page, select Options. Make your changes and select OK.
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Select OK.
If the page you want to add a border to is in the middle of your document, you must first add section breaks.
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Go to Design > Page Borders.
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In the Borders and Shading box, design your border:
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Under Setting on the left, choose the border style you want.
If you want to remove a border, select None.
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Under Style, select the line style you want.
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Select the arrow under Color and choose a border color.
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Select the arrow under Width and choose the width you want.
Tip: If you want a clip-art border instead, select the arrow under Art and choose a border graphic.
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Next, select the arrow to the right of Apply to and choose This section — First page only.
This setting also works if you’re adding the border to the first page in your document.
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The Preview box confirms your border styles. To remove the border from one side, select that line in the Preview box.
Tip: To change where the border appears on the page, select Options and adjust the margin settings.
When finished, Select OK.
Word for the web does not let you edit, delete, or add new borders to text.
If you’ve added borders around text in a document you created with the Word desktop app, Word for the web will preserve them.
A potential workaround is to insert a table that contains only one cell, then paste or type your text into that cell.
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Do you want to make an outside border in your Microsoft Word documents? You can easily add a solid or dotted border to an entire page or selected content. You can also use Microsoft Word’s included designs to create an artistic border for themed event flyers. This wikiHow will show you how to create a border around text, images, or pages in Microsoft Word using your Windows or Mac computer.
Things You Should Know
- To add a page border, click «Design» → «Page Borders». Select a border setting, style, and page application. Click «OK».
- To add a border around text or images, select the content. Click the «Home» tab and click the arrow next to the border icon. Click «Borders and Shading…»
- Select a border setting, style, and page application. Click «OK».
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Open a project in Microsoft Word. This looks like a W on top of a blue square. Microsoft Word is available to install for Windows.[1]
- You must have a subscription to use Office 365.
- Use this method to add a lined border around a Microsoft Word document. This is different from changing the margins.
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Click Design. This will be in the top toolbar, between Draw and Layout.
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Click Page Borders. You can find this at the left side of the Design section, next to Page Color. It will have an icon of a page with a yellow border.
- A new window will open.
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Click Page Border. This is the middle tab on the Borders and Shading window. You may already be on this tab.
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Select a border setting. In the left-most column, click the border option that you want to use. Select from: None, Box, Shadow, 3-D, and Custom.
- If you want a simple border to go all the way around your page, select Box.
- To add a border with fun images, click the Art drop-down menu and select from Word’s art gallery. This border can be used for themed flyers for holidays and events.
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Select a border style. In the «Style» column, scroll down until you find the border style you want to use, then click the style. Select from the various solid and dotted line styles.
- If needed, you can also change the border’s color and width from the Color and Width drop-down menus, respectively.
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Select pages to use. If you created a new section earlier in this method, click the «Apply to» drop-down box, then click the section to which you want to apply the border in the resulting drop-down menu.
- To apply the border to the first page of your section, click This section — first page only in the drop-down menu.
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Click OK. It’s at the bottom of the page. This will apply the border to your document’s specified page(s).
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Open a project in Microsoft Word. This looks like a W on top of a blue square. Microsoft Word is available to install for Mac.[2]
- You must have a subscription to use Office 365.
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Click Design. This will be in the top toolbar, between Draw and Layout.
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Click Page Borders. You can find this at the left side of the Design section, next to Page Color. It will have an icon of a page with a yellow border.
- The Borders and Shading window will open, set to the Page Border tab. If it isn’t already on the Page Border tab, click it now.
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Select a border setting. In the left-most column, click the border option that you want to use. Select from: None, Box, Shadow, 3-D, and Custom.
- If you want a simple border to go all the way around your page, select Box.
- To add a border with fun images, click the Art drop-down menu and select from Word’s art gallery. This border can be used for themed flyers for holidays and events.
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Select a border style. In the «Style» column, scroll down until you find the border style you want to use, then click the style. Select from the various solid and dotted line styles.
- If needed, you can also change the border’s color and width from the Color and Width drop-down menus, respectively.
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Select pages to use. If you created a new section earlier in this method, click the «Apply to» drop-down box, then click the section to which you want to apply the border in the resulting drop-down menu.
- To apply the border to the first page of your section, click This section — first page only in the drop-down menu.
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Click OK. This is the blue button. This will apply the border to your document’s specified page(s).
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Open a project in Microsoft Word. This looks like a W on top of a blue square.
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Click Home. This is in the top toolbar, between File and Insert.
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Select content. Click and drag your mouse across the text or image(s) around which you want to place a border.
- This method will place a border around an entire selection of images and text together.
- If you want to place a border around a single image, double-click the image. Select a preset style from the Picture Styles section, or click Picture Border to set the color, weight, and design of the border.[3]
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next to the «Borders» button. The Borders 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. A drop-down menu will open.
- On a Mac, click the Format menu item at the top of the screen instead.
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Click Borders and Shading…. It’s at the bottom of the drop-down menu. A new window will open.
- On a Mac, you’ll find this option in the middle of the Format drop-down menu.
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Select a border setting. In the left-most column, click the border option that you want to use. Select from: None, Box, Shadow, 3-D, and Custom.
- If you want a simple border to go all the way around your text, select Box.
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Select a border style. In the «Style» column, scroll down until you find the border style you want to use, then click the style. Select from the various solid and dotted line styles.
- If needed, you can also change the border’s color and width from the Color and Width drop-down menus, respectively.
- To add a border with images, click the Art drop-down menu and select a design.
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Select pages to use. If you created a new section earlier in this method, click the «Apply to» drop-down box, then click the section to which you want to apply the border in the resulting drop-down menu.
- To apply the border to the first page of your section, click This section — first page only in the drop-down menu.
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Click OK. This will apply the border to your document’s specified page(s).
- Be sure to save your document when you’re finished.
- You can also use Microsoft Word to create a booklet or another handout flyer.
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You do what is shown above, but instead, you click on the picture before you go through the steps.
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You can dress up pages in a document with page borders and background settings. You can line the margins of your pages with borders to give them finished edges or to make certain pages stand out, and you can even create your own page designs using colors and watermarks.
Add a Watermark
A watermark is a faint message or image that indicates a document should be specially treated. It does not obscure text on the page.
- Click the Design tab.
- Click the Watermark button.
- Select a watermark.
You can choose a built-in watermark from a category such as Confidential, Disclaimers, or Urgent, or you can create a custom watermark.
It’s applied to every page in the document, set behind the text.
Add Page Color
You can also add a background color to your document. This color will only appear in digital copies of the document—Word will not print the page color.
- On the Design tab, click the Page Color button.
- Select a color.
Page color won’t be printed; it will only appear when viewed digitally—as a Word document, PDF, or web page.
Add Page Borders
Finally, you can add page borders along the margins to give it a finished look.
- On the Design tab, click the Page Borders button.
- Select a border style from the Style list.
- Select a border color.
- Select a border width.
- Choose which sides of the page will have a border by clicking the top, bottom, and/or sides of the preview.
- Choose which sections of the document will have the border.
- Click OK.
Using the Borders and Shading dialog box, customize how you want the border to look.
You can choose from a variety of solid lines, dotted and dashed lines, and patterns.
You can choose the whole document, just this section, just the first page in this section, or every page in the section but the first page.
The border is added to the selected pages.
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What is a border in Word?
A border in MS Word is a line, a set of lines, or designed shapes that appear around the boundaries of pages/images/shapes/textboxes.
Page borders are mostly used to design flyers and brochures, and sometimes book covers. Borders can be lines of different styles and weights or colorful graphics as illustrated in the picture below.
To add a page border in Word:
- Launch Microsoft Word.
- Click on the Design tab for Word 2013, 2016 and 2019.
- Click on the Page Layout tab for Word 2010 and older.
- In the Page Background group, click on Page Borders.
The Borders and Shading dialog box will appear. This
dialog box offers options for you to choose the style or size of border for
your page or pages.
- Select the Box option. This will give you a square border around your pages.
- In the Style section, select the type of line you want if you want to use a line or group of lines as your border.
- You can also change the color and width of the line.
- Instead of using a line, you can also use some
designed shapes or art as borders in your Word document.
NOTE: By default, Word adds the borders to all the pages in the document. If you don’t want this behavior, in the Apply to drop-down, select the first page only to add borders to only the first page. You can also break your pages into sections so that you can add borders to those sections alone.
How to make a custom border in word
It is very simple to make a custom border in Word.
- First, click to activate the Design tab.
- In the Page Background group, click the Page Border command to display the Borders and Shading dialog.
- Under the Settings group, select the Custom option from the list of choices. Now set the border styles and widths.
- Also, go to the Apply to box to decide whether you want the border to be applied to the entire document. Word will apply borders to every page in the document by default.
How to remove border in word
To remove border in Word:
- Click on the Design tab.
- In the Page Background group, click on Page
Borders. The Borders and Shading window will appear. - Click on None under Setting at the
left.
The none option will remove all the borders on all the pages
in your Word document.
How to add a Christmas border in word
To add a Christmas border in Word:
- Click on the Design tab.
- In the Page Background group, click on Page Borders. The Borders and Shading window will appear.
- Click on Box option under Settings at the left.
- Click on the Art dropdown, scroll up and down until you see the Christmas tree, click on it.
- Now click OK to add a Christmas border into Your Word document.
How to add a paragraph border in word
Aside from adding page borders in Word, you can also add
paragraph borders.
As a page border surrounds the entire page, a paragraph border surrounds only the selected paragraph.
Thus, to add a paragraph border in Word:
- Click anywhere inside the paragraph to which the
border will be added. - Click on the Home tab.
- In the Paragraph group, click on the Borders
command - A list of border options appears, click on Outside
Borders. - A line border will now surround the entire
paragraph.
How to add border to picture in word
Pictures in your document look fancier when framed.
There are different preset styles of borders you can add to
a picture to make it look nicer in your document. This feature is called Picture
Styles in MS Word.
The quickest way to add a border to a picture is to choose a preset style from the Styles gallery.
Obey the instructions below:
- Click to select the picture to add the border.
- Upon selecting the picture, a Picture Tool Format will appear on the ribbon. Click on this tab.
- In the Picture Style group, select the picture style that you like.
- The selected border will be added to the picture.
how to remove text box border in word
To remove text box border in Word:
- Click to select the text box.
- The Format tab will appear. If you don’t
see the Format tab, make sure the text box is selected. - Click on the Format tab.
- Click Shape Outline in the Shape Styles
category. - Then click on No Outline.
The No Outline command will remove the text box border from your Word document.