Different Page Borders

[Guest]

Hi, Im hoping someone can help with this.

I am creating a document which requires different pages to have different
coloured and types of borders. It must be within one document as i have to
PDF the document for it to be printed. When i change the border for one page
it changes it to the same thing for every other page. This is not what I
want. Is there any way around this?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You will need to divide the document into Sections (Insert>Break). Borders
can then be define to apply to a single section.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You will need to divide the document into Sections (Insert>Break). Borders
can then be define to apply to a single section.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jay Freedman]

You can't do it with the Format > Borders dialog, which allows only
one page border for the whole document. (I was surprised to find this,
as I would have assumed it was a per-section property.)

You can place section breaks before and after each group of pages that
share a border type. Then open the header pane and use the rectangle
or line tools on the Drawing toolbar to draw a border and color it (or
see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm for a way to use
clip art). In each section, be sure to turn off the Same As Previous
setting of the header where the drawing is anchored, so that heading
becomes independent of the one in the preceding section.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Jay Freedman]

You can't do it with the Format > Borders dialog, which allows only
one page border for the whole document. (I was surprised to find this,
as I would have assumed it was a per-section property.)

You can place section breaks before and after each group of pages that
share a border type. Then open the header pane and use the rectangle
or line tools on the Drawing toolbar to draw a border and color it (or
see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm for a way to use
clip art). In each section, be sure to turn off the Same As Previous
setting of the header where the drawing is anchored, so that heading
becomes independent of the one in the preceding section.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hmm, I don't know what I was looking at.... Doug is exactly right. You
do have to make sure you select "This section" in the Apply To box of
the Borders dialog, because it always defaults to "Whole document".

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hmm, I don't know what I was looking at.... Doug is exactly right. You
do have to make sure you select "This section" in the Apply To box of
the Borders dialog, because it always defaults to "Whole document".

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Shri

I am creating a document which requires different pages to have different
coloured and types of borders. It must be within one document as i have to
PDF the document for it to be printed.

That doesn't really make sense to me: whoever gets the PDF to print
should be able to take n files as well (printing separately or compiling
the PDFs for one print job). If all else fails, you can always work with
individual files, "PDF" them, and bring them into one large PDF (that's
generally a lot easier than compiling individual "pages" into one Word
file -- especially if you need to mix section properties.

Doug gave you a good way to achieve what you asked for, of course. I
just wanted to make sure you struggle with section breaks for the right
reasons (learning about them is a very good idea, anyway ).

2cents
Robert

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Shri

I am creating a document which requires different pages to have different
coloured and types of borders. It must be within one document as i have to
PDF the document for it to be printed.

That doesn't really make sense to me: whoever gets the PDF to print
should be able to take n files as well (printing separately or compiling
the PDFs for one print job). If all else fails, you can always work with
individual files, "PDF" them, and bring them into one large PDF (that's
generally a lot easier than compiling individual "pages" into one Word
file -- especially if you need to mix section properties.

Doug gave you a good way to achieve what you asked for, of course. I
just wanted to make sure you struggle with section breaks for the right
reasons (learning about them is a very good idea, anyway ).

2cents
Robert