You have to use Print Layout view in Word 2011 for Mac for this to work, so if you’re not already in Print Layout view, click the Print Layout view button at the lower-left corner of the document window to switch to it. Borders: Displays the Page Border tab of the Borders and Shadings dialog. This dialog is a creative person’s. Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010 and Word 2013 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) At the left side of the screen click Advanced. Scroll through the options until you see the Show Document Content section. (See Figure 2.) Figure 2. Advanced options in the Word Options dialog box. Make sure the Show Text Boundaries check box is cleared. 1 Put the insertion pointer on the page you want to border. For example, you might put it on the first page in your document. 2 Click the Border command button and choose Borders and Shading from the bottom of the menu that appears.

• How To Put A Border Around A Page In Word

How To Put A Border Around A Page In Word

By Normally, the background of a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac is white, but you can change the background color — and even apply document theme colors to it. You have to use Print Layout view in Word 2011 for Mac for this to work, so if you’re not already in Print Layout view, click the Print Layout view button at the lower-left corner of the document window to switch to it. When you modify the background in Print Layout view, Word 2011 for Mac can convert it into Notebook Layout view and Publishing Layout view. Three formatting tools are in the Page Background group of the Ribbon’s Layout tab: • Color: Click to display the color palette. Color formats the background layer that’s furthest to the back. • Watermark: Above the background layer but still behind the text layer is a layer that you can use if you want to add a watermark.

You can choose from two watermark types, Picture and Text. • Borders: Displays the Page Border tab of the Borders and Shadings dialog. This dialog is a creative person’s playground for customizing borders. • Setting: Choose from None, Box, Shadow, 3-D, or Custom. • Custom: Use the Interactive Preview to choose which edge(s) to apply or remove a border. • Style: Choose a line style for your border. • Color: Choose a color for your border.

• Width: Specify a width for your border. • Art: Choose from an enormous variety of artwork.

• Apply T o: Choose Whole Document or a section option. • Options: Displays the Border and Shading options dialog that lets you adjust margin and placement of your border. • Horizontal Line: Displays an Open dialog that lets you choose a picture of a line to use as your border’s line style.

Timothy apparently hit some control key that caused paragraphs in his document to appear in a box. The box enlarges with long sentences; pressing Enter begins a new box.

The boxes do not print (thankfully), but they appear in new blank documents. It is as if there were a one-cell table, but there isn't. Selecting the paragraphs and formatting for 'no border' does not make the boxes go away. If Timothy just knew what to call it, he's sure he could find the answer, but he's stumped as to why this is happening. If this problem crops up and you are using Word 2013, it is very possible that you've inadvertently turned on the display of text boundaries. In older versions of Word, turning on text boundaries displayed a border on the page corresponding to the margins. In Word 2013 the text boundaries are displayed around each paragraph on the page.

(See Figure 1.) Figure 1. Text boundaries appear around individual paragraphs. If this is your problem, you can turn off the display of text boundaries in this manner: • Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010 and Word 2013 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) • At the left side of the screen click Advanced.

• Scroll through the options until you see the Show Document Content section. (See Figure 2.) Figure 2. Advanced options in the Word Options dialog box.• Make sure the Show Text Boundaries check box is cleared. If that does not fix your problem (or if you are not using Word 2013), then check the style formatting for the Normal paragraph style. (How you modify styles has been discussed frequently in other WordTips.) In the universe of styles, the Normal style holds preeminence. It is the 'root' style for almost all other built-in styles, and even for many custom styles.

The bottom line is that if the Normal style is formatted to have a box around it, then there is a good chance that all your paragraphs will have boxes around them. Check the style formatting and remove any boxes that may be associated with the style, and your problem may be immediately fixed. In all honesty, though, the problem probably isn't related to the Normal paragraph style.