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Monday, August 22, 2011

6. Margins

 Use
You can set customized margins for the entire page or a selected box of text.  How to   To set the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins for your page, click on FILE and select PAGE SETUP. A dialog box appears where you can manipulate all the margins for the page by clicking on the up and down arrows to increase and decrease the margin size.
How to
 To change the margins for part of the document, select the text, and then set the margins you want. In the dialog box for the Apply to drop-down option, click SELECTED TEXT.  

5. Setting Borders

 Use
You can add a border to any or all sides of each page in a document, to pages in a section (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options.), to the first page only, or to all pages except the first. You can set apart text from the rest of a document by adding borders. You can also highlight text by selecting a section of the text and applying a border to it.  
How to 
  This functionality will format each of your pages or paragraphs to have a border. Click on FORMAT from the menu bar at the top of the application. Select BORDERS AND SHADING from this menu. A dialog box pops up showing the various types of borders possible. Choose BOX Setting and select the required Style, Color, Width required for the document. Now set the Apply to option to PARAGRAPH or select the same options in the PAGE BORDER tab to create a border for a page.