To increase the professionalism when designing report covers and books, we often add borders to the cover page. In this article, TipsMake.com will guide you how to make a border for the cover.
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: allows you to 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!