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Five Word borders you can apply as you type

Sweet!

Having taught MS Office for quite some time, I've found that students very often encounter this feature accidentally. Getting the lines to appear is easy--getting them to go away again is not intuitive for the ordinary user, who typically approaches me very frustrated after watching their text move above and below an apparent object that just won't delete. (It won't delete because it's technically a bit of formatting, not really an object.)

One sure way to get rid of a single or double line like this when you're already past the feasibility of the "undo" option is to highlight the text both above and below the line, then choose Format > Borders and Shading, borders tab > None > OK.

Oddly, if you make the fancier ### or *** line, just hitting [backspace] or [delete] from the appropriate position makes it go away just fine.

for this tip! I've often encountered this problem, and even though I've been working with Word for many years, I always have a fight with it.

I really appreciate that. It's so frustrating to encounter problems like this and so rewarding to have a forum like this to relieve them.

How do you remove the border? I ran into one in a document created by someone else that I needed to update and I still can't figure out how to remove it.

I use this feature regularly, but I'd like to see a keyboard shortcut for framing out a paragraph. Is there one?

I'd really like to know this, too

You can do this, at least in Word 2003.

TOOLS | CUSTOMIZE...

Click on COMMANDS TAB

Click on KEYBOARD... button

In CATEGORIES section, select BORDERS
In COMMANDS section, select BORDEROUTSIDE
(Or whatever border style you choose)

In PRESS NEW SHORTCUT KEY box:
Place cursor in the box and using the keyboard keys enter you shortcut keyboard sequence to fit your needs. i.e. ALT + B

If it has already been assigned, look below the box and it will tell you if its been assigned as a keyboard shortcut or not. If it hasnt, it will state [UNASSIGNED]

Once satisfied, click on the ASSIGN button, then CLOSE button (2x).

Hope this helps.

Not to be picky but I counted six:
1. ---
2. ___

3. ===
4. ~~~
5. ***
6. ###

Fun though. Thanks

A wonderful and simple tool - thanks!

Steve

Cool! I'll add these to my short cut list!

This works in Office 2007 also. To clear the border simply select the text and apply a Normal or some other style from the Home ribbon.