Business Computing Tips

By K&K Fainges kfainges@...

Borders are the lines around the words on your page. As with anything
in formatting, remember to highlight the area you want to put the box
around before you start.

Down the left of the Borders tab, there are examples of different
styles of borders. Click on the one you want. Then you can adjust the
Style of line (just arrow up and down till you find the one you want
and click on it), the colour and width. If you want to Read more
about choosing a colour, visit K-tips colour.

The Preview section allows you to see what the border will be like.
It also lets you customise it. If you click on any of the lines on
the border, it will take them away. Click on it again to bring them
back. This lets you leave off sides to give an open effect, draw a
margin down the side of the page, or do a variety of other things.

Clicking on the Apply To arrow, will allow you to add the border to
just the Text (putting a box around one lot of words, or the
Paragraph as a whole (avoiding borders stopping and starting very
time there is a gap in the writing). If the option isn't given, you
can't use it. Normally this means you have not highlighted all the
text you need to.

If gaps do appear in your borders, try using hitting CTRL and ENTER
for a new paragraph, not just enter. This will give you the visual
break without being a new paragraph.

The Options button allows you to adjust the distances around the
border to bringing it in from the edge, or keep the text further away
from it.

At the bottom is the horizontal line button. Clicking here will bring
up your clip art and let you chose from a large range of lines. Just
double click on the one you want to use.

The page border tab works exactly the same way, but lets you put a
border around the whole page, or large sections of it. It also has an
art button. This allows the border to be a picture. These only turn
up on the computer page though, and not when printed. If you want to
be able to print them, put the text in a table first, then apply the
borders.

The Shading tab allows you to colour in the background behind the
text. You can chose a colour, a pattern, and a colour for the pattern
(the second colour button.) So if you want a red background with pink
polka dots, first ask yourself why??? But then you chose the colour
red, the pattern with dots, and then the bottom colour pink. Again
you can preview it and apply it to a whole paragraph, or just a bit
of text.

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Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."