[wildetudor]

Currently, if you define up/down borders for a text (via direct formatting or
via style definition), those borders will extend for the entire width of the
page, even if the selected text is only a few letters long.

This happens for both text-level and paragraph-level styles.

I think it would be very useful to be able to have text surrounded by
borders above/below it and have those border only extend to its width. This
could be used, for example, as a nice way of formatting figure captions.

Thank you!

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Select the text and apply a border to it (the text)

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"wildetudor" wrote in message
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Currently, if you define up/down borders for a text (via direct formatting
or
via style definition), those borders will extend for the entire width of
the
page, even if the selected text is only a few letters long.

This happens for both text-level and paragraph-level styles.

I think it would be very useful to be able to have text surrounded by
borders above/below it and have those border only extend to its width.
This
could be used, for example, as a nice way of formatting figure captions.

Thank you!

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That gives you a box border. The only way to get just top and bottom (other
than an EQ field) is to use paragraph indents to make the paragraph just as
wide as the text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Select the text and apply a border to it (the text)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"wildetudor" wrote in message
...
Currently, if you define up/down borders for a text (via direct
formatting or
via style definition), those borders will extend for the entire width of
the
page, even if the selected text is only a few letters long.

This happens for both text-level and paragraph-level styles.

I think it would be very useful to be able to have text surrounded by
borders above/below it and have those border only extend to its width.
This
could be used, for example, as a nice way of formatting figure captions.

Thank you!

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