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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / 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 No, unlike Publisher, Word does not allow you 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 Thanks Suzanne! Then I should try Publisher. My son is preparing a homework about Hamlet and he wanted to have a page border consisted of skulls.:) So, I can not make him happy for now. > No, unlike Publisher, Word does not allow you to create custom Border Art. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > help will be appreciated. > > TIA Uncle, Just as an experiment, I monkeyed around with some with some frames anchored in the header and footer. It is not Publisher, but you can do a pretty decent job of it by placing four borderless frames around the document and fill them with the Wingdings character code 78 (Skull and crossbones). SignatureGreg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in gmaxey@whamspammvps.org > Thanks Suzanne! Then I should try Publisher. My son is preparing a > homework about Hamlet and he wanted to have a page border consisted [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. >>> TIA Or if you find a good piece of clip art, you can duplicate it around the page, using a rectangular AutoShape to guide you (delete the AutoShape after you have your border created). Better still, you might find a readymade border with a such a theme that can be inserted as a watermark. A Google Images search for "skull border" turns up www.sewnstuff.net/designs/ Halloween/H343.jpg on the first page. -- 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. > Uncle, > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > >>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. > >>> TIA It has been easy with publisher. I used your clip by cropping one skull out of three. Thanks to all > Or if you find a good piece of clip art, you can duplicate it around the > page, using a rectangular AutoShape to guide you (delete the AutoShape after [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > >>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. > > >>> TIA Dear Greg Thanks a lot for your help. I actually did the job with Publisher but I would like to understand the way you described (I am an old man). Do you say I can insert four borderless frames in footer and header? Could you explain it a little more? > Uncle, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. > >>> TIA Uncle, Sure. You can access the frame icon on the Forms toolbar (I don't know why the designers of Word stuck it there). The icon is just to the left of the icon with the small "a" in a box. So go ahead and display the Forms toolbar. Now View>Header and Footers. Click the frame icon and then draw a long thin frame across the top of the document in the header definition box (your frame can hang over the right and left edges). Now Insert>Symbol. Select the Wingdings font and you will find a skull and crossbones symbol. Insert it in your frame and copy and paste until you fill the frame. Now copy the whole frame and paste a copy in the footer. Paste another copy, select it and change drag the borders to make it long and thin down the left edge of the page. Select Font>Text direction and change the direction of the symbols. Copy this left border adn paste to the right. You can change the text direction again if you like. Adjust the four frames and you are set. Like I say it is crude, but might work. SignatureGreg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in gmaxey@whamspammvps.org > Dear Greg > Thanks a lot for your help. I actually did the job with Publisher but [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>>>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. >>>>> TIA Note that this workaround is necessary only if you're using font characters. If you're using graphics, you don't need a frame. -- 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. > Uncle, > [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > >>>>> more borders? Any help will be appreciated. > >>>>> TIA |
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