If the borders are following the paragraph indents, then you're
applying borders to individual paragraphs and not to the page as a
whole. In the Borders and Shading dialog, you must use the Page Border
tab and not the Borders tab to create a border for a whole page.
The next problem you'll run into is that the smallest part of a
document to which you can apply a page border is a section (unless the
page you want happens to be the first page of a section). If you try
to apply a page border to a single page in the middle of a multi-page
section, the border will appear on all of the section's pages.
So first you need to put Next Page section breaks at the beginning and
end of the page (and delete any manual page breaks in those places) to
separate the page from the rest of the document. Then you can put the
cursor on the desired page, open the Borders and Shading dialog to the
Page Borders tab, and make sure the Apply To box is set to "This
section". Finally you can choose the Box setting and, if desired,
choose a different style, color, and width for the border.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:24:01 -0800, Island Girl
wrote:
Me again.
Things are coming along pretty well in my undertaking, except that the
author wants borders around certain pages of text.
The problem is that some of these pages (Questionnaires) contain outlines
where, of course, some of the headings are indented. This has caused the
page borders to indent right along with the headings instead of going in a
straight line with the rest of the text. This zig zag effect is distressing,
and I need some advice here. Is there a way I can make Word ignore the
indentations and keep the page borders in a straight line?
Thanks so very much!