Adding a page border to your file can be a subtle method to make your Microsoft Word files stick out. You can tailor the design, thickness, and number of pages for a border to use to your Word file.

Including a Page Border in Microsoft Word

Developing a page border in Microsoft Word will depend upon your version of Microsoft Office. For Office 365 and Office 2019, open a Word document and click the “Design” tab in the ribbon.

If you have an older variation of Office, click the “Layout” or “Page Layout” tab rather.

From here, click the “Page Borders” button, in the “Page Background” section of the ribbon.

By default, the “Borders and Shading” box that opens need to default to the “Page Border” tab. If it does not, click on that tab to enter your border settings.

Click “Box” to include a common box border to your file. You can utilize the default design, color, and border width, or alter these settings from the different drop-down menus.

Click “OK” to use the page border to your Word document.

By default, this border style is 10 applied to every page.

Your file editing view will upgrade to show the brand-new border applied.

Alternative Page Border Styles and Formatting

Package page format is the default design, however alternative border styles and formatting alternatives are offered for you to utilize rather.

Package border is the most fundamental, including a solid line with no shadow to your page. Even that can be customized with various kinds of lines, widths, and colors.

Besides package border, you can likewise use a border with a shadow, a “3D” style border, and a customized border with mix-and-match alternatives for each side.

To do that, select one of the alternatives from the “Setting” section in the “Page Border” tab of the “Borders and Shading” dialog box. Your picked style will stand for you to evaluate in the “Preview” area before you use it to your document.

If you want to use or remove individual border lines from your file (for instance, eliminating the border from the bottom of a page), you can do this from the “Preview” section.

If a border is applied, click the border line to eliminate it. To apply it again, click the line to make it re-appear.

Clicking specific border lines in the “Preview” section is also how you can use different designs to various lines when the “Custom” border setting is chosen.

To do this, click the “Custom” button in the “Setting” column, choose a line style from the “Style” drop-down menu, and then click among the border lines in the “Preview” box.

You can make your border stand out with different colors and border widths. A broader border width will make your border stand apart more in your file.

Border widths begin with 1/4 pts and go up to 6 pts. A preview of your picked border width appears in the “Preview” area. You can pick any color you choose, either from the predefined choices or by using the RGB color chart.

To alter the border width or color, choose your selected choices from the “Color” and “Width” drop-down menus. If you have the “Custom” border setting used, you’ll require to click each border line in the “Preview” section to use your picked settings to those lines.

Adding a Border to a Single Page

Microsoft Word will generally apply border styles to each page, but you can use a page border to a private page or exclude particular pages like your front page.

To do this, go into the “Page Border” settings menu (Layout/Design/Page Layout > > Page Borders) and click the “Apply To” drop-down menu.

If you want to use a border to a specific page, make certain you’re active on that page in the Word document before getting in the menu.

From the “Apply To” drop-down menu, select “This Section” to use it to the page you’re presently on. To apply your border to the first page only, choose “This Section– First Page Only” or, to apply it to all pages except the very first page, choose “This Section– All Except First Page” instead.

Click “OKAY” to conserve when you’re all set. This will then apply your page border to the pages you’ve defined, rather than to the whole file.

Producing a page border in Microsoft Word will depend on your variation of Microsoft Office. By default, the “Borders and Shading” box that opens ought to default to the “Page Border” tab. To do that, select one of the options from the “Setting” area in the “Page Border” tab of the “Borders and Shading” dialog box. If a border is applied, click on the border line to eliminate it. You can make your border stand out with different colors and border widths.