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Background, Borders & Margins
- Background
Use
Using the Background feature, you can apply a different color or a texture to the background of your document.
How to
To change the background of the document, click on FORMAT from the menu bar at the top of the application. Move your cursor to BACKGROUND. Using the sub-menu, you can select any COLOR or FILL EFFECTS for the background of the document.
- Borders
Use
You can add a border to any or all sides of each page in a document, to pages in a section (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options.), to the first page only, or to all pages except the first. You can set apart text from the rest of a document by adding borders. You can also highlight text by selecting a section of the text and applying a border to it.
How to
This functionality will format each of your pages or paragraphs to have a border. Click on FORMAT from the menu bar at the top of the application. Select BORDERS AND SHADING from this menu. A dialog box pops up showing the various types of borders possible. Choose BOX Setting and select the required Style, Color, Width required for the document. Now set the Apply to option to PARAGRAPH or select the same options in the PAGE BORDER tab to create a border for a page.
- Margins
Use
You can set customized margins for the entire page or a selected box of text.
How to
To set the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins for your page, click on FILE and select PAGE SETUP. A dialog box appears where you can manipulate all the margins for the page by clicking on the up and down arrows to increase and decrease the margin size.
To change the margins for part of a document, select the text, and then set the margins you want. In the dialog box for the Apply to drop-down option, click SELECTED TEXT.
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