Chapter 18

They’re Called Borders

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding borders

check Drawing lines around paragraphs

check Putting paragraphs in boxes

check Creating a fancy document title

check Adding a box around words

check Putting a border around a page

check Inserting a horizontal line

If you try to use any of these characters to draw a line or box in your text, your computer will explode: - = _ + |

Well, maybe not explode, but it will get angry with you. That’s because Word hosts a collection of line-drawing tools to artfully place borders and boxes in and around your text. You have no need to pore over the keyboard and scout out the best character to highlight some chunk of text in your document. All you must know is that the text format is called a border and the graphical element is a line.

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