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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / February 2004Page borders
I would like to customize the graphics of page borders in word. It should be possible. Where are the borders stored and how can I add more borders? Any help will be appreciated. TIA Unlike Publisher, Word does not offer a way to create custom Border Art. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I would like to customize the graphics of page borders in word. It should be > possible. Where are the borders stored and how can I add more borders? Any > help will be appreciated. > TIA Go to Format > Borders and Shading > Page Border (tab), near to the bottom of the Borders and Shading dialogue, click in the "Art" pop down menu and click the borders of your choice. Andre Da Costa Jamaica W.I. > I would like to customize the graphics of page borders in word. It should be > possible. Where are the borders stored and how can I add more borders? Any > help will be appreciated. > TIA Andre, that is *not* an answer to the question that was asked. "uncle" is already aware of the existing Border Art and wants to add to it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Go to Format > Borders and Shading > Page Border (tab), near to the bottom > of the Borders and Shading dialogue, click in the "Art" pop down menu and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > help will be appreciated. > > TIA > Andre, that is *not* an answer to the question that was asked. "uncle" > is already aware of the existing Border Art and wants to add to it. Actually, Suzanne, there is a way to add custom borders to word document, but I know that you are reluctant to learn anything new and different. *You need to learn to think outside the box!* C. Michael >> Andre, that is *not* an answer to the question that was asked. >> "uncle" is already aware of the existing Border Art and wants to add [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > C. Michael Suzanne answered the question that was asked. Andre on the other hand is in a little world of his own. If you want to tell us how to add border art to the existing list, rather than add border art to a word document which Suzanne and the rest of us can do, we would love to hear from you. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><< If there is a way, why don't you tell me about it? > > Andre, that is *not* an answer to the question that was asked. "uncle" > > is already aware of the existing Border Art and wants to add to it. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message366248.html There are many ways to add custom borders to Word documents, and I have described some of them in other threads if not in this one. There is, however, no way to create custom Border Art to add to the list in the Page Border dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > > Andre, that is *not* an answer to the question that was asked. "uncle" > > is already aware of the existing Border Art and wants to add to it. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message366248.html > If you want to tell us how to add border art to the existing list > rather than add border art to a word document which Suzanne and th > rest of us can do, we would love to hear from you. If the rest of you already knew how, why didn't you give "uncle" th answer he was looking for? No you can not manipulate the page border that come with Word. Nor can you add to them (as far as I know). Yo can, however, add border art to get the same effect (with a little mor effort). You knew this and didn't bother to give that knowledge t "uncle". Instead he got something like, -"There are many ways to ad custom borders to Word documents, and I have described some of them i other threads if not in this one"- That was close to being helpfu Suzanne, but could you describe it one more time for "uncle"? If yo give only an answer to the question as asked, and do not address th intent of the question, then you are not helping the questioner t learn. Uncle, the way that I have done this in the past is to create my pag border in a graphics editor like Adobe's Photoshop or Jasc's Paintsho Pro. Then you insert it to your document (each page separately). Setu a table to input your text to. Make sure the text you input is set t show above your graphic. You may have to manipulate the page margin and paper size to make sure it prints like you want. When you are don you can save your work as a template so you can use it in the future By doing it this way, you are not constrained by the limitations o Words "Border Art" (I'll let Suzanne and Graham give you tha information about "Border Art"...since they can do that...if the want). There may be a better/easier way (probably is) to do this, but like I said, I have done it this way in the past and it worked for me. Sorry for the delay in answering, but I'm having to do this whil working with students. TGI C. Michae What I have said in the past is along these lines: 1. If you have a graphic that is already a frame/border (the clip art that comes with Office includes many such), then you can insert it in the page header (so that it is behind the text and repeats on every page). You may need to resize it to fit the page, and in Word 2000 and above you'll need to change the wrapping from "In Line with Text" to "Behind Text" in order to place it properly. 2. If you want to construct a border/frame manually from a piece of clip art, you will again need to start with View | Header and Footer so that you are in the header pane. Draw a rectangular AutoShape to serve as a guideline (or, better still, you could temporarily insert a lightweight line Page Border). Then insert your clip art and duplicate it as many times as needed to go around the rectangle (which you can delete after you have all the clip art arranged). Group all the art objects and save the resulting border as an AutoText entry for reuse. Since you've inserted it in the header, it will be listed on the AutoText menu on the Header and Footer toolbar. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > > If you want to tell us how to add border art to the existing list, > > rather than add border art to a word document which Suzanne and the [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message366248.html Can you see my big smile? Thank you Suzanne. C. Michael Can you see my big smile? That's one of the things I like about Microsoft Office. There are s many different ways to do the same thing. Thank you Suzanne C. Michae |
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