Borders

[Hugh Jeego]

Hi all,

I want to add border art to specific boxes in a flyer I have made up. I
chose "Sawtooth in Grey" and then changed the colour to red which is what I
want. However, I want it only on the right hand or bottom sides of some of
the elements so that the finished product looks like one continuous border
around all elements. When I choose Sawtooth in Grey and change to red, it
puts the border around the whole selected element which appears, on the
finished product, within the area where I don't want it to be. So, I tried
to remove just the parts of the border I didn't want but I cant. Is there
any way to do this, please?

Thanks for any help.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I'm not positive I follow what you're trying to do but.........try hiding
the rest of the border with a white rectagle with no border. Assuming your
background is white.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select the border, copy, paste special as a .wmf. Ungroup, delete the parts you
don't want. You may have to ungroup several times, but in the end it works.

 

[Hugh Jeego]

JoAnn,

Thanks for the reply. If you can think of Sawtooth in Grey and then made red
(or go look at it), the idea is as depicted below:

I have a flyer and want a continuous border around the outside by telling
each element to show the border where I want it to show and to have "no
border" on the rest of the element. So, if I want right hand side and bottom
it would be:

|
|
___|

.....like that but with sawtooth in grey (made red). If you can visualise the
whole thing, I want to get rid of the top border in that example and the
left one and have NO BORDER on left and top, as shown. I simply cannot do
that using border art. If you can see what I put, above, as the bottom right
hand side of the flyer, I get a box around the entire element and cannot
remove left and top. Same goes for other elements in the flyer where I only
want the right side of the border shown, the left side, just the top or
whatever. I have multiple boxes in there, some with pictures and some with
text. I have tried grouping the lot and then bordering the group in the
fashion I want, to no avail.

Does that make more sense? Anyway, I cannot do as you suggested as border
art appears not to allow that. I thought there MUST be some way around it,
however.

I'm not positive I follow what you're trying to do but.........try hiding
the rest of the border with a white rectagle with no border. Assuming your
background is white.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Hi all,

I want to add border art to specific boxes in a flyer I have made up. I
chose "Sawtooth in Grey" and then changed the colour to red which is what
I want. However, I want it only on the right hand or bottom sides of some
of the elements so that the finished product looks like one continuous
border around all elements. When I choose Sawtooth in Grey and change to
red, it puts the border around the whole selected element which appears,
on the finished product, within the area where I don't want it to be. So,
I tried to remove just the parts of the border I didn't want but I cant.
Is there any way to do this, please?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Hugh Jeego]

Sorry for sounding stupid but I don't know what a .wmf is for a start. For
seconds, the multiple elements of the flyer are all separate to begin with
and not grouped. However, I did try grouping and bordering but it didn't
work. Ungrouped, the borders appear around every element, killing the
insides of the flyer off.

 

[Mary Sauer]

When you "paste special" one of the options is *Windows Metafile*. This is a
..wmf.
I am referring only to your BorderArt. Select the BorderArt, copy, Paste
Special... You can ungroup the segments; delete and/or re-color.
The original BorderArt you used cannot be ungrouped, but the copy can be.

 

[bjm]

Can you make the borders with clip-art rather than border-art?

In some of my clip-art collection I have borders including horizontal &
vertical only segments; I've used that when I want a partial border -- it
may mean building it with several copies of the original & being picky with
all the placement/grouping/etc, but it has worked.

Are you trying to get a great-big-border around the whole page? Could you do
a page-box with a border & then put everything else on top of it? Or is it
an irregular shape, not a rectangle?
bj

JoAnn,

Thanks for the reply. If you can think of Sawtooth in Grey and then made
red (or go look at it), the idea is as depicted below:

I have a flyer and want a continuous border around the outside by telling
each element to show the border where I want it to show and to have "no
border" on the rest of the element. So, if I want right hand side and
bottom it would be:

|
|
___|

....like that but with sawtooth in grey (made red). If you can visualise
the whole thing, I want to get rid of the top border in that example and
the left one and have NO BORDER on left and top, as shown. I simply cannot
do that using border art. If you can see what I put, above, as the bottom
right hand side of the flyer, I get a box around the entire element and
cannot remove left and top. Same goes for other elements in the flyer
where I only want the right side of the border shown, the left side, just
the top or whatever. I have multiple boxes in there, some with pictures
and some with text. I have tried grouping the lot and then bordering the
group in the fashion I want, to no avail.

Does that make more sense? Anyway, I cannot do as you suggested as border
art appears not to allow that. I thought there MUST be some way around it,
however.

I'm not positive I follow what you're trying to do but.........try hiding
the rest of the border with a white rectagle with no border. Assuming
your background is white.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Hi all,

I want to add border art to specific boxes in a flyer I have made up. I
chose "Sawtooth in Grey" and then changed the colour to red which is
what I want. However, I want it only on the right hand or bottom sides
of some of the elements so that the finished product looks like one
continuous border around all elements. When I choose Sawtooth in Grey
and change to red, it puts the border around the whole selected element
which appears, on the finished product, within the area where I don't
want it to be. So, I tried to remove just the parts of the border I
didn't want but I cant. Is there any way to do this, please?

Thanks for any help.