How to add artistic page borders in Microsoft Word

Are you tired of seeing the traditional black borders all the time on your Word documents? Are you looking for ways how to add some colorful and artistic borders to your documents to make them more attractive and fun? How about adding different artistic borders to different pages of your Word document? Or apply a single artistic border to all pages in the document at once? I know you’re as excited as we are about this whole artistic borders thing!

Go straight to this article to learn how to successfully apply artistic borders to Word documents.

Part 1: How to Apply the Same Artistic Page Border to All Pages in a Word Document

Step 1: Open the Word document and click on Top Features "Design" tab in the area. Under the DESIGN tab, click the button named Page Borders.

Step 2: When the "Borders and Shadows" window opens in front of you, make sure you are first in the " Page Border" tab.

Next, in the middle section, at the bottom, click the drop-down menu called "Art" and select the art of your choice that will serve as your document border.

Step 3: You can change the color of your artwork using the Color drop-down menu. Note that colors can only be changed for some art, not all.

You can change the thickness of your artwork using the "Width" drop-down menu.

Step 4: Additionally, if you want the border to only apply to certain sides and not all, you can use "Preview# border icon under the ##” section. After all is completed, click the OK button.

Step 5: There you go! In the screenshot below you can see that I chose not to show the border on the right.

Step 6: The screenshot below shows another example where I slightly adjusted the width setting and also A full border view is used. Isn't it beautiful?

Part 2: How to Apply Different Art Page Borders to Different Pages in a Word Document

Okay, let’s say you have a Word document, Each section of the Word document tells you a different story, one tells the music, another the dance, and so on. So wouldn't it be cool if the borders also matched the content within the page? That is to say, simply put, it is to set different artistic borders for different pages in your Word document. sounds good? Then keep reading!

Step 1: First, we need to isolate the pages to which specific border art needs to be applied. To do this, we need to segment the page. In other words, we need to create a section before and after the target page, and then apply an artistic border.

#Suppose we want to apply an artistic border to

page 2. In this case, 2 breaks should be created before and after page 2 so that page 2 is in a section and the rest of the document is isolated from it. Let's see how to do this in the next steps.

Click on the last point

on Page 1. Next, click on the PAGE LAYOUT tab on the top ribbon.

Step 2: Now, click on the drop-down menu that says Breaks. From the menu options, click the option that says Next Page.

Step 3: Let’s create another break to isolate page 2. To do this, click on the last dot on page 2. Then click the PAGE LAYOUT tab at the top of the page.

Step 4: Click the Breaks drop-down menu again and select## from the list of available options #Next Pageoptions.

Step 5

: That’s it. Page 2 is now split and therefore isolated from the rest of the document. Now let's apply an artistic border to this page. To do this,

click anywhere on the segmented page

. Then click the DESIGN tab at the top, and under the DESIGN tab option, click the button Page Borders.

Step 6

: Now, just like the previous section, you can select from the "Art" drop-down menu an art and adjust its width and border settings. Next, click the "

Apply to"

drop-down menu and select the "This Section" option. Click the

OK

button when finished to apply the border art only to selected specific pages.

Step 7

: That’s it. You can now see that the border art is only applied to one specific page. Similarly, you can apply different artistic borders to different pages of your Word document.

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