Microsoft Word is a feature-packed word processor. In fact, even though we’ve been using it for years, surely there are some built-in features that we still don’t know about. Next, we are going to talk about the easiest way to insert and edit page borders.
First of all, we must be very clear that the borders that we are going to talk about next are actually design elements that the application offers us. We tell you this because we should not confuse them with the usual page margins that we usually use. The margin is an invisible line that runs along the top and bottom, as well as the sides of the Word document.
However, if we refer to a border, we are talking about a design element that is used to create a frame added to the mentioned margins. In short, the margin is really a limit for the pages and the border is a decorative object that we can add as we will see next. In certain types of documents and with a certain taste, we can use these elements to give an original tone to the project that we are developing in Word.
Add custom borders to Word pages
By default, Microsoft’s text editor offers us different types and styles to add these borders that we are talking about. So we can choose the one that interests us the most in each case depending on the type of work we are carrying out. To achieve all this that we are telling you, the first thing we do is open the text editor and go to the Design section. Here we just have to locate the button that says Page Borders located on the right side of the top bar.
A new window will appear on the screen where we can choose between different elements such as Box, Shadow or 3D. In addition, we will have the possibility to customize parameters such as the style of the border, its thickness or color.
At this point, the best we can do is try mixing several of these parameters to find the design that interests us the most. We recommend you take a careful look at the section called Art, where you find a good number of predefined designs that Word offers us. On the right side of this window we find a small section that lets us see a preview of how the page would look once we have added these borders.
In turn, here we will also have the opportunity to specify the page or pages to which we want to apply this new design that we have created.
Edit these document borders
In the event that we have accepted all the changes made to the design of the borders of the Word document, it may happen that it does not finish convincing us. At this point we just have to edit this design quickly and easily.
In order to change this in the borders that we have just designed and included in our text editor document, we only have to go back to the same menu option mentioned above. Here the window will appear with the changes that we previously established and now we can modify those customizations to adapt the borders to the new design that we want to use. This is something that we can do as many times as we need or want.
