<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">In the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Border</span> tab you can set the border options for <help:switch select="Program"><help:case select="CALC">the selected cells</help:case><help:case select="WRITER">the selected item or the current paragraph.</help:case></help:switch></help:help-text></p>
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<p class="Paragraph">You can assign an identical border on all four sides or different line styles and colors. In tables, you can also define the style of the inner lines. If desired, you may also define a shadow for the selected object. <help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER">Borders can be defined for pages, frames, graphics, <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> tables and paragraphs, as well as for embedded objects.</help:case></help:switch></p>
<p class="Paragraph">For tables in text documents, place the cursor within the table without selecting anything. If you now modify the border, it applies to the whole table. If you only want to apply borders to the active cell, you must first select it (using the mouse, select two cells and then draw the selection back one cell).</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"> Select one of the predefined borders or define interactively for each element the border in another line style and line color.</help:help-text>In order to be able more quickly to select the most often-used border types, these are positioned ready for selection in the top area. The border selected appears in the graphic representation in the bottom area and can be edited further there.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To set a border, you can also use the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Borders</span> icon on the object bar. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>This opens a <help:popup Id="65630" Eid="abreissleiste">floating toolbar</help:popup> from which you can select predefined borders.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">The border is previewed in the lower field.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The four outer edges are marked in this field with small angles. To edit an outer margin, click in the appropriate position between the small angles.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">For tables there are two additional pairs of brackets indicating the horizontal and vertical lines between cells. Click in the center of the preview field to define a border for both horizontal and vertical lines.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The selected border elements will be indicated by black triangles. If you now choose a line style or a color, it will be applied to the selected part of the border.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you select an empty line in the preview, that is to say, if, of the three conditions "Line", "Gray Line" and "No Line", the condition "No Line" appears, this means that the relevant part of the border will be deleted.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">Clicking repeatedly on an element in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Borders</span> dialog will switch between three alternative modes:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">In this area you can specify the type and color of the border for those <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>elements of the border marked by small triangles in the <span class="T1">Frame</span> field. The line style and line color that you select here apply to those elements of the border that have been selected in the <span class="T1">Frame </span>field.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">In the top list box you will find predefined solid lines and double lines with various line widths. Select here the desired line width and the line type. Select "None" to remove the line of the marked border element.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To change the line style, you can also click the Line Style icon.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-id value="SVX_LISTBOX_RID_SVXPAGE_BORDER_LB_LINECOLOR" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select the desired line color from the <span class="T1">Color</span> list box.</help:help-text> The default color is black. The color you choose here is applied to all selected border lines.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To change the line color, you can also click the <span class="T1">Line Color</span> icon.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">In this area you can define the spacing between the border and the content. An increase in the spacing leads to a shrinking of the space available for the contents.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="CALC">You will only see this area under <span class="T1">Format - Page</span>, and not under <span class="T1">Format - Cells</span>.</help:case></help:switch></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can enter the distance of the text content from a left border.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can enter the distance of the text content from a right border.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can enter the distance of the text content from an upper border.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can enter the distance of the text content from a lower border.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you select this field, the same value will be given to all four distances the next time a distance is changed.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can also apply a shadow effect to the border, which appears at two adjoining sides in the background of the border (even if the border itself is not visible).</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="Shadows; on graphics in frames" tag="kw65824_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>If graphics or objects are anchored to a frame in the document, they cannot exceed the size of the frame. This applies as well to a defined shadow. If a shadow is defined for an object that already fills the entire frame area, the object will be reduced so that the shadow also fits within the frame.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click in the box to define the shadow position.</help:help-text> The selected position is displayed in the <span class="T1">Frame</span> box.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can select the desired distance for shadowing.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select the desired shadow color here.</help:help-text></p>
