Text box with no border in word

Here’s how to add a line, pattern, or custom border to a text box, picture, and other objects in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel for Mac.

Note: If you didn’t add the border to the shape, text box, picture, or other object in Mac Office, you can’t change or remove the border for the object.

Try the «Sketched» outline

If you’re using Microsoft 365 for Mac (version 16.28 or later), you can give a casual, hand-drawn look to shapes with the Sketched outline.

1. Select an existing shape in your document, or draw a new one.

2. With the shape selected, on the Shape Format tab, select Shape Outline > Sketched, and then select a line width. (The smaller the point size («pt»), the thinner the line is.)

Add or remove a border for a shape or text box

1. Select the shape or text box to which you want to add, change, or remove a border.

2. Click Shape Format, and then click the arrow next to Shape Outline.

   

3. Do any of the following:

   To	Do This
   Add or change the color of the border	Either click the color that you want, or mix your own color by clicking More Outline Colors.
   Add or change the thickness of the border	Point to Weight, and then choose the line weight that you want.
   Add or change the style of the border	Point to Dashes, and then click the line style that you want.
   Remove the border from the shape or text box	Click No Outline.

Add or remove a picture border

1. Select the picture to which you want to add, change, or remove a border.

2. Click Picture Format, and then click the arrow next to Picture Border.

   

3. Do any of the following:

   To	Do This
   Add or change the color of the border	Either click the color you want, or mix your own color by clicking More Outline Colors.
   Add or change the thickness of the border	Point to Weight, and then choose the line weight you want.
   Add or change the style of the border	Point to Dashes, and then click the line style you want.
   Remove the border from the picture	Click No Outline.

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Add a page border

Text boxes in an MS Word document are a very useful feature. Text within a box acts as a highlight for the reader. Here, we will show you how to:

1. Add a Text Box
2. Remove a Text Box
3. Customize a Text Box Border
4. Change Border Color
5. Create Dashed Border
6. Change Border Thickness

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Let us begin.

Step #1: Open the Word document.

Open the Word document where you want to add the text box.

Step #2: Add the Text Box

Position the cursor where you want the text box to appear.

In the top menu bar, click on the Insert tab to change the ribbon.

In the section Text, click on the Text Box icon to open a dialog box for Built-In text boxes.

Click on the text box you find suitable. We select the Simple Text Box.

Word adds the text box in the document.

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Remove a Text Box

Step #1: Open the Word document.

Open the Word document that has at least one text box.

Step #2: Remove the text box

Click on the text box boundary to select it.

Press the Delete button on your keyboard.

Word will delete the text box from your document.

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Customize a Text Box Border

Step #1: Open the Word document.

Open the Word document that has at least one text box.

Step #2: Customize the text box border

Click on the text box boundary to select it.

Right-click on the text box boundary to open a menu.

Click on Format AutoShape/Picture.

This opens a dialog box for Format Text Box.

Click on the Colors and Lines tab.

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Change Border Color

Under Line, click on the down arrow on the right-hand side of Color:.

This opens a dialog box for Theme Colors and Standard Colors.

Click on the color of your choice.

The chosen color will appear against the Color: tab under Line.

Note: At this point, you can click on OK at the bottom of the dialog box to exit. Word will change the color of the box to your chosen color. Else, move to the next step to make more changes.

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Create Dashed Border

In the Format Text Box dialog box, under Line, click on the down arrow on the right side of Dashed:.

This opens a choice for different dashed lines.

Select the most suitable dashed line.

The chosen dashed line will appear against the Dashed: tab under Line.

Note: At this point, you can click on OK at the bottom of the dialog box to exit. Word will make the changes to the text box as per your choices above. Else, move to the next step to make more changes.

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Change Border Thickness

In the Format Text Box dialog box, under Line, click on the down arrow on the right side of Style:.

This opens a choice for lines of a different style.

Each line style has its weight in points on its left.

Select the line most suitable to you.

The chosen line style will appear against the Style: tab.

The weight of the chosen line style will appear against the Weight: tab under Style:.

The choice of line styles offers only a few discrete weights.

To change the line weight, select the number next to Weight:.

Change the number as you like.

Click on OK at the bottom of the Format Text Box dialog box to exit.

Word will make the changes to the text box according to all your choices.

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Conclusion

Follow our step-by-step instructions to add or delete text boxes in your Word document. Beautify your text boxes with our instructions. We have shown you how to change the border color, style of the border line, and the thickness of the border.

Text boxes are a fantastic feature, they allow you to insert text anywhere in your document at any angle in different fonts, formats, colours and orientations. For this reason, more people are using text boxes in their everyday Word documents for creative headings or to make certain text stand out.

When you insert a new text box into your Microsoft Word document, Word will automatically place a border around it. This is something designers love but for the purpose of your document, a border may not be required.

Removing the border from your text box will make the text inside look as though it is a ‘part’ of your document, not a text box insert.

In this post, we will show you how to remove the border from your text box in just a few short steps.

Removing the border from your text box in Word

1. Open Word
2. Select the text box you would like to remove the border from
3. Click Shape Format tab

1. Select Shape Outline

1. Click No Outline

By pressing no outline you will immediately remove the border from your text box.

Unfortunately, there is no way to remove more than one border at a time, unless your text boxes are in a row and you can highlight them and select them together.

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Including a text box in a Word document provides you with the ability to display text outside of the regular document content. This text box can then be formatted and moved around, but you may be wondering how to remove the border from that text box if you don’t need it.

You can remove borders from text boxes in a Word document by selecting the border of the text box, choosing the Shape Format tab at the top of the window, then clicking the Shape Outline button and selecting the No Outline option from the drop down list.

Microsoft Word handles a text box like a separate object, much like if you added a picture or a table to your document. As such, it has a variety of formatting options that you can apply.

But if you have never had to change a setting for a text box, you may be having trouble figuring out where all of those options are.

Our guide below will show you how to get rid of your text box border in Microsoft Word so that you don’t see the line surrounding the box in your document.

How to Delete a Text Box Border in Microsoft Word

1. Open your document.
2. Click on the text box border.
3. Select the Shape Format tab.
4. Click the Shape Outline button and choose No Outline.

Our article continues below with additional information on how to remove text box border in Word, including pictures of these steps.

Learn how to draw a line through text in Google Docs if you also use that program and want to learn about some of its less common text formatting tools.

How to Get Rid of the Border on a Text Box in Word 2016 (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this article were performed in the Microsoft Word for Office 365 version of the application, but will work in most other versions of Word as well.

Step 1: Open the document with the text box whose border you wish to remove.

Step 2: Click on the text box border, which will select the entire object.

If you are having trouble clicking on the text box border, you can also choose to click inside of the text box.

Step 3: Select the Shape Format tab at the top of the window.

Note that this tab is only visible when the text box is selected, so you won’t see it when you are editing the body of your document.

Step 4: Click the Shape Outline button in the Shape Styles group in the ribbon, then choose the No Outline option from the drop down.

Now that you know how to remove text box border in Word you will be able to fix issues that arise in your document related to text box borders.

You will still see a line around the text box, as it is currently selected. However, when you click on another part of the document, that line should be gone, allowing you to see how the text box will look now that you have eliminated the border.

More Information on How to Remove Border from Text Box in Word

While the steps in this tutorial discuss removing the border completely, you can use these same steps if you want to use a different color for your border.

The text box border can be further customized from this menu by selecting the Weight, Sketched, or Dashes option. This will change things such as the style of the text box border, or its thickness. There is also an option on the Shape Outlines menu that says More Outline Colors, which you can choose if you don’t see the color that you want to use for the border.

Word also gives you the option to adjust the fill color of your text box. By default the text box background is white, but you can make it almost any other color that you would like. This is accomplished by going to Shape Format > Shape Fill then selecting the desired background color. If you do change the background color, you may also need to change the text color. You can do this by selecting the text inside of the text box, then using the Font formatting options found on the Home tab.

if you need to do something other than removing the border from a text box, then you will find a lot of options on the Format Shape dialog box. you can open this menu by clicking the small Format Shape button that appears at the bottom-right of the Shape Styles group in the ribbon.

Here you will find ways to customize your shape or text box, including:

• Changing the line style
• Adjusting the line weight
• Changing the shape border
• Changing the vertical alignment or text direction
• Using different margins for the content inside of the text box
• Adding various effects to the text box like shadow, reflection, glow soft edges, and more
• Applying or removing a fill color from the text box

There is even a tab for Text Options that let you select the formatting and layout settings for the text that is inside of the text box.

When you combine all of these different customization options along with the ability to create a custom border or remove a border from a text box then you can see just how many options there are for you to format the text box the way that you want.

If you need to change multiple text boxes at the same time inside of your document, then you can do that by clicking the first text box, then hold Ctrl key on your keyboard, and clicking on the additional text boxes that you want to change.

Note that doing this will cause you to apply the same changes to each of the selected text boxes. So if you give a different border style from the Borders tab then it will apply that effect to each of the selected text boxes.