How to Use Borders and shading options on Microsoft Word 2000

Borders and Shading
This can be applied to a single paragraph or cell in a table or multiple paragraphs or cells in a table. Borders and shading option from the format menu is used regardless to what you are trying to border. There is also a borders toolbar, which you can use for most of the features for quick use. You can also change the colour of your border or add shading.

Applying borders

• Select the area you wish to apply a border either by highlighting the text that you require the border to go around or place the cursor where you want the border to go.
• Select borders and shading from the format menu

This dialog box has three control tabs Border, Page border and Shading

• Click on the Border control tab
• Or Alt + B
• Select the required setting by clicking on it
• Or Alt + X for box
• Alt + A for Shadow
• Alt + D for 3-D
• Alt + U for Custom

In the middle of the dialog box you have three combo boxes Style, colour and width of line

• Click in the appropriate box
• Or Alt + Y for Style
• Alt + C for colour
• Alt + W for width
• Use the arrow keys in each case to make your selects
• Press enter key
• On the right-hand side of the dialog box is the preview window and four small squares. The small squares are the custom setting tools.
• Clicking on the first square will produce a top line of a border
• Or tabbing to it and press enter
• Clicking on the second square will produce a bottom line of a border
• Or tabbing to it and press enter
• Clicking on the third square will produce a left line of a border
• Or tabbing to it and press enter
• Clicking on the fourth square will produce a right line of a border
• Or tabbing to it and press enter
• You have a choice of the distance from the text to the line of the border
• Click on the option button
• Or Alt + O

• A dialog box will appear with four small combo boxes with sizes for the distance between the text and the top, bottom, left and right lines of the border

• Click on them in turn
• Use the Up arrow key to increase the size
• Use the down Arrow key to decrease the size
• Or Alt + O for top line
• Alt + M for bottom line
• Alt + E for left
• Alt + F for right
• Use arrow keys to adjust size

There are two buttons at the bottom left corner Show toolbar and Horizontal Line

• Click on it to show toolbar button
• Or Alt + T
• Click on Horizontal Line button
• Or Alt + H

The Horizontal Line dialog box will appear giving you options of pictures or motion clips and these are selected the same way as picture and motion clips of bullets

• When you are satisfied click on the OK button.
• Or Tab to it and press enter

Applying Shading

• Click on the shading control tab
• Or tab to the shading control tab
• Click on the colour you require
• Or tab to filling
• Use arrow keys to choose colour
• When you are satisfied click on the OK button.
• Or Tab to Ok button and press enter