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Borders are rules you can add to any or all of the four sides of a paragraph. Shading is the color or artistic design you use as background for a paragraph. Borders and shading are formatting tools for enhancing text, paragraphs, table cells or frames. Commonly used borders and shading effects can be quickly added to text, paragraphs, frames and tables or table elements, using the Tables and Borders toolbar, or you can choose from a comprehensive list of borders and shading styles using the Borders and Shading dialog box. Borders or shading applied to a paragraph will usually affect the entire paragraph, extending from the left indent to the right indent, even if the paragraph contains no or a very short line of text. If you are not comfortable with the horizontal span of the effects of the borders or shading applied, you should adjust the indent markers on the ruler. See the illustrative image below.
Adding Borders and Shading Using the Tables and Borders Toolbar
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Adding Borders Using Borders and Shading Dialog Box The Borders and Shading dialog box enables you to select from a list of preset or custom borders and shading styles to add to selected text, paragraphs, etc.
Removing Borders Just as easily as you added borders to items in a document, you can also remove the borders any time such borders no longer appeal to you. You can easily change such borders in the same approach. Follow the steps enumerated below to remove borders from items:
Alternatively, on the Format menu, click Borders and Shading. From the Borders and Shading dialog box, click the Borders tab, under Setting, click None and then click OK. Adding Shading Using the Borders and Shading Dialog Box
Removing Shading/Shading Settings
Change the Width of a Bordered or Shaded Area in a Paragraph Borders and shading applied to a paragraph are added relative to the indents, so that the shading and border lines extend from the left indent of the selected paragraph to the right indent of the paragraph. Even if the selected paragraph contains only a short line of text, or no text at all, borders and shading added will always extend from the left indent of the selected paragraph to the right indent of the paragraph. Using the indent markers on the horizontal ruler, you can easily adjust the width of the bordered or shaded area in a paragraph containing short lines of text, to enhance its beauty. Here are the steps you should follow to change the width of the bordered or shaded area in a paragraph with short lines of text.
Adding Borders Above, Between, or Below a Group of Paragraphs If you apply a border to a group of paragraphs that have the same indents, Word encloses all the selected paragraphs within a single border of the setting you specified. For instance, if you select a group of paragraphs having the same indents and apply a Box border, Microsoft Word displays a single box enclosing all the selected paragraphs, rather than enclosing each paragraph in a separate box. Also, if you select a group of paragraphs having the same indents and apply a top and bottom border, Microsoft Word displays one border above and another one below the whole block of selected paragraphs. In this circumstance, each of the paragraphs has the format, but borders are visibly displayed for only the first and last paragraphs in the group. If you copy/cut one of the paragraphs and then paste it in another location, borders will be displayed above and below the pasted text. You can also add borders between a group of selected paragraphs. The button for adding borders between paragraphs will appear only when two or more paragraphs are selected. To add borders above, between, or below a group of paragraphs
Add Borders to a Group of Paragraphs with Different Indents Under the heading above, I mentioned that if you apply a border to a group of paragraphs that have the same indents, Word encloses all the selected paragraphs within a single border of the setting you specified. This will not be the case when you apply such borders to a group of paragraphs having different indents. For instance, if you select a group of paragraphs with different indents and apply a Box border to them, Word places each paragraph in a separate box. This will not make a beautiful sight, you know? To place a group of paragraphs with different indents into a single box, follow these steps.
How to set the Spacing Between Borders and the Contents of the Paragraph You can adjust the amount of space between text and the top, bottom, left and right edges of the border.
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How to Increase the Shaded Area Around Text in a Shaded Paragraph If you apply shading to a paragraph, without applying borders to it, you will usually find it impossible to increase the shaded area around the text in the paragraph. The following are the tricks to help you get around this problem.
Adding Page Border Page borders can be a very terrific way of enhancing the appearance of a page, section or the whole document. In addition to the many border style and color settings with which you can format the page, pages in the current section, or the whole document, Word also offers you numerous fantastic graphical page border design arts to use in place of the current Style settings, to add creativity to the pages. Note that the Art list may not be available if you did not choose the full Installation option when installing Word.
To format the current page, pages in the current section, or the whole document pages with page border, use the following steps.
Setting Additional Options for Page Borders In adding page borders, you can specify the exact position of the border on the page, among others. You can specify whether the page border is measured relative to the edge of page, or margins. These options and additional settings you will learn to apply by following these instructions.
TIP Always see to it that the page border is well distanced from the margin to avoid placing it in the unprintable area at the edge of the page. Removing Page Borders To remove page borders from a page, pages in a section, or the entire document, follow these steps.
Adding Artistic Borders Above or Below a Paragraph In addition to the various line styles you can use to add borders to paragraphs and pages in Word, Microsoft Word also offers another set of line styles with which you can add artistic borders above, below, or within a paragraph, or used as a page border. You must have noticed that the Art box is not available in the Borders tab, but on the Page Border tab only. The Horizontal Line button gives you access to a wide variety of artistic horizontal lines you can insert anywhere in a document.
To add an artistic top and/or bottom border to a paragraph, or page, do the following.
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Which of the following is the space between the margin and where the text begins?Answer: Indentation is the space left between the 'margin' and the 'start of paragraph'. Explanation: The term indentation or indent is used for describing the number of blank spaces or the distance utilized for separation of paragraph from the right or left margins.
When paragraph text is aligned with both the left and right margins it is said to be ?When you justify text, space is added between words so that both edges of each line are aligned with both margins. The last line in the paragraph is aligned left.
What term refers to how text is positioned between the top and bottom margins of a page?Horizontal alignment determines how the left and right edges of a paragraph fit between the margins, while vertical alignment determines the placement of the text between the upper and lower margins.
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