Borders and Shading (Microsoft Word)

Borders and shading help you to emphasize information and guide a reader’s eye through a document. When adding borders and shading, remember that they are both applied to entire paragraphs. This document covers the following options for adding borders and shading to paragraphs.

Borders and Shading Options: Ribbon Option

Borders and Shading Options: Dialog Box Option

Borders and Shading Options: Ribbon Option

Use the Home command tab to quickly add borders and shading to paragraphs or on the selected text. Both borders and shading can be applied to the same paragraph.

Adding Borders and Shading

From the Ribbon, select the Home command tab Within the Paragraph section, the Shading, and Border options are available.
Select the paragraph(s) or text to which you want to add shading and/or border(s)
To add a border, click BORDERS select the desired border option
To add shading, click the next to SHADING select the desired shading option

Removing Borders and Shading

Select the paragraph containing the border or shading you want to remove
To remove the border, click BORDERS select No Border
To remove the shading, click the next to SHADING select No Color

Borders and Shading Options: Dialog Box Option

To view the Borders and Shading dialog box:

Select the paragraph(s) or text to which you want to add shading and/or border(s)
From the Ribbon, select the Home command tab
Within the Paragraph section, click BORDERS select Borders and Shading (from appearing list0 The Borders and Shading dialog box appears.

Adding Borders

Select the Borders tab
From the Style scroll box, select the desired border style
From the Color pull-down list, select the desired border-color
From the Width pull-down list, select the desired border width and Click OK

Adding Shading

Select the Shading tab
From the Fill pull-down list, select the desired fill effect
OPTIONAL: Under Patterns, from the Style pull-down list, select the desired pattern style
OPTIONAL: Under Patterns, from the Color pull-down list, select the desired pattern color and Click OK