Boreders design

[jay]

I have always thought that the selection of borders for Word lacks a lot. To
provide a work-around I want to design some borders for my own use. To make
the borders Word friendly I want to design them in Word using the drawing
feature.

I immediately run up against a design problem-- the ability to gang two or
more geometric shaes into a single disgn that can be color changed and size
changed as a unit. My end goal is to be able to insert the "Designed Line"
into the Word document and be able to stretch it to the needed length or
changed the color through the Format feature.

Is this possible or should I try a different way?

 

[Stefan Blom]

You can select multiple drawing objects (assuming that they are *not*
positioned "In line with text") and then group them.

To select multiple objects, you can click the first object, then hold
Shift and click additional ones.

To group selected objects, click Draw on the Drawing toolbar, and then
click Group. You can now move the objects together as a unit, and/or
format them all in one step (via Format | AutoShape).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[CyberTaz]

Most importantly, accept the indisputable fact that Word is a word
processing program, not a graphic design application. Once you do,
everything else in your question is answered

If you need something more elaborate than what is provided you may want to
consider using a page layout program such as MS Publisher. If you create
graphics with a drawing program & save them as files you can take advantage
of them there as well as importing the text done in Word.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To add to what Stefan and Bob have said, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm