How to Make a Border Frame in Word

This guide explains how to make a Border Frame in Word, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

Step 1

A standard report is usually aligned with the following parameters:

• Top, bottom: 2cm.
• Left: 3cm.
• Right: 2cm.

Aligning helps the report to be printed and bound in a book, so it won't be stamped on frames or text. Best of all, following these parameters makes your report look better, more professional, and more standard.

Select the Layout tab -> Margins -> Custom Margins .

Dialog appears, you enter parameters for top, bottom, left, right as the picture, the other parameters to leave. Then click OK to be.

Step 2

After aligning , click the Design tab -> Page Borders, we see the dialog box Borders and Shadin g:

• Setting: choose the type of border: shadow, 3D, or design your own style according to your liking.
• Style: choose the type of border, here I choose the type of border 2 simple strokes.
• Color: you can optionally choose the border color to match the main color of the cover.
• Width: the thickness of the border
• Art: lets you create borders with animated decoration.
• Help you apply styles to each arbitrary border. For example, the upper and lower borders 1 style, left and right border 1 other style.
• Select "This section - First page only" to apply only to the cover page you are designing, otherwise this frame border will be created for all word pages.

Step 3

Adjust the parameters of the table above, click the Options button to edit the Borders and Shading Options panel. Change the Measure from item to Text , and leave all the checkboxes in the Options box.

Click OK , we get the following result:

Then you design the cover as you like.

Or you can design a border pattern with motifs by adjusting Section Art in the Border And Shading panel.

As a result, you get a beautiful cover decorated with vignette frames.

With just a few simple steps, you can create border frames in Word as you like. TipsMake. com wish you success!