Chapter 18

They’re Called Borders

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding borders

Bullet Drawing lines around paragraphs

Bullet Putting paragraphs in boxes

Bullet Creating a fancy document title

Bullet Adding a box around words

Bullet Putting a border around a page

Bullet Inserting a horizontal line

If you try to use any of these characters to draw a line or box in a Word document, 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 in and around your text. You have no need to pore over the keyboard and scout out the best character to box 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.

  • This chapter covers the border, ...

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