Select Borders and Shading from the Format menu to view the borders dialog.
You can use this as an alternative to using the borders toolbar (see Borders and backgrounds) - there are some extra settings that can only be set here as well.
Choose whether to border the selected text on the Left, Right, Top or Bottom, or to apply a full border using the All checkbox. Click on the appropriate checkbox to apply the border; click on any selected checkbox to remove the border. To remove all borders at once, click on None.
You can also choose the Line style and Border Color for the border, and the type of Shading you want within the border. Click on the arrows attached to these boxes to see the range of options and then select the required option. The color and line style will be applied when the border is applied. The shading will be applied as soon as it is selected.
The "Border" dialog has a couple of features that can't be implemented using the border buttons:
The Offset box allows you to increase or decrease the distance between the border and the text.
The Shading group box enables you to choose the colors to be used in a particular shading style. First select a shading style in Style, and then the background and foreground colors in Back Color and Fore Color respectively. If style is set to solid, back color will have no effect and if style is clear, fore color has no effect. Anything in between will display a mixture of the two colors.
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