There are many ways to call attention to your important ideas in a Word document, including bulleted or numbered lists, different typefaces, and section headers. Another is text borders. If you do insert a text border, you may later decide your document looks better without it. If that's the case, you can easily remove it.
Apply a Text Border
Placing a border around a section of text in a Word doc takes just seconds.
- Open your document. On the ribbon, select Design.
- Highlight the text you want to put the border around.
- In the Page Background group, select Page Borders.
- In the Borders and Shading dialog box, select the Borders Download textmate for windows. tab.
- Select OK. The border surrounds the text you initially chose.
Remove a Text Border
Text Box Example
If you later decide to remove the border, here's how to do it.
- Place your cursor anywhere within the bordered text. On the Design tab, in the Page Background group, select Page Borders.
- In the Borders and Shading dialog box, select Borders. Under Setting, select None. Select OK.
Online Text Box
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Text Box Templates
Another option available in Word 2008 is that you can convert the Text Box to a Frame, then use the Remove Frame command. Doing so causes the text to join the body content of the document as a paragraph & flow accordingly. Microsoft Word 2010 can insert a border around selected text or an entire page. For example, you can place a border around one paragraph of an event announcement to make it stand out in a two-column newsletter. When I insert a text box and print out a worksheet, the border of the text box prints out as well. I don't want the border to print, but cannot figure out how to keep it from printing.