FORMAT
=> BORDERS AND SHADING
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Borders are the lines around the words on your page. As with anything in
formatting, remember to highlight the area you want to put the box around
before you start.
Down the left of the Borders tab, there are examples of different styles of
borders. Click on the one you want. Then you can adjust the Style of line
(just arrow up and down till you find the one you want and click on it), the
colour and width. If you want to Read more about choosing a colour, visit K-tips
colour.
The Preview section allows you to see what the border will be like. It also
lets you customise it. If you click on any of the lines on the border, it will
take them away. Click on it again to bring them back. This lets you leave off
sides to give an open effect, draw a margin down the side of the page, or do a
variety of other things.
Clicking on the Apply To arrow, will allow you to add the border to just
the Text (putting a box around one lot of words, or the Paragraph as a whole
(avoiding borders stopping and starting very time there is a gap in the
writing). If the option isn't given, you can't use it. Normally this means you
have not highlighted all the text you need to.
If gaps do appear in your borders, try using hitting CTRL and ENTER for a
new paragraph, not just enter. This will give you the visual break without
being a new paragraph.
The Options button allows you to adjust the distances around the border to
bringing it in from the edge, or keep the text further away from it.
At the bottom is the horizontal line button. Clicking here will bring up
your clip art and let you chose from a large range of lines. Just double click
on the one you want to use.
The page border tab works exactly the same way, but lets you put a border
around the whole page, or large sections of it. It also has an art button.
This allows the border to be a picture. These only turn up on the computer
page though, and not when printed. If you want to be able to print them, put
the text in a table first, then apply the borders.
The Shading tab allows you to colour in the background behind the text. You
can chose a colour, a pattern, and a colour for the pattern (the second colour
button.) So if you want a red background with pink polka dots, first ask
yourself why??? But then you chose the colour red, the pattern with dots, and
then the bottom colour pink. Again you can preview it and apply it to a whole
paragraph, or just a bit of text.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
