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You’ve carefully prepared a report, and now you’re setting up the title page. A border around that page would make the page look more distinctive. Here’s how to add a page border to that title page.
To apply a simple box border:
We’ll assume that your insertion point is set at the title page and that page is the first page of Section 1 of your report document (if you did not add sections to your document, then by default, the entire document comprises Section 1).
Set the insertion point at the title page, choose File - Page Setup - Layout tab, then choose Borders.
The Borders and Shading dialog opens and displays the Page Border tab.
Under Setting:, None is selected. If you already had applied a border, you would select None to remove it.
To apply a simple box border, click Box to select it.
Preview shows the effect of this choice, as it will for all subsequent choices.
Under Style:, select a line style. Here, we’ve selected a thick/thin combination.
Under Color:, select the desired color. Since we’re printing our report on a black-and-white printer, we’re keeping the default Automatic.
Under Width:, select the desired line width for the border.
Set Apply to: to specify which page or pages will be bordered. To border only our title page, we’ve selected This section - First page only.
Choose OK and view your bordered page. Scroll down or display Two Pages to verify that only the first page has a border.
To apply a decorative border:
Most of these decorative borders are appropriate for informal documents such as bulletin board notices and sales flyers, not for formal reports.
At the Borders and Shading - Page Border dialog, select Box, then drop down the Art: list.
Select the desired graphic, then view its effect in Preview.
To remove the border from one edge only, you work at Preview. Simply click the edge you want to clear or click the box representing that edge. Here, we’ve cleared the two sides, leaving the decorative border for the top and bottom of the page.
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