Word 2013 For Dummies

Chapter 18

Lines and Shading

In This Chapter

Understanding lines, borders, and colors

Using the Border command button

Working with the Borders and Shading dialog box

Drawing a horizontal line

Drawing lines around your text

Putting a border around a page

Removing borders and lines

Coloring the background

The days of whacking the hyphen, equal sign, or underline key to decorate your text are long over. It’s sad, too, because I knew quite a few people who were adept at using the computer keyboard’s more interesting symbol keys to draw boxes and lines and even graphics within their text. I can understand the need, but what I don’t understand is why people don’t simply use the borders, lines, ...