In the Page Border dialog, click Options... and change the "Measure from"
setting from "Edge of page" to "Text" (you'll probably want to clear the
check boxes for "Surround header" and "Surround footer." This will place the
border close to the page margins (up to 31 points away). Line numbers will
be outside the border if you make it close enough to the text (up to about
12 points or so)
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org