Adding Table Borders

Word includes a whole set of border options if you’re working with tables. The tools are easy to use—and fun to apply. This section provides the basic steps for adding borders and shades to your tables.

As you know, Word includes a great gallery of Table Quick Styles that you can apply to your tables. It may be that those formats apply all the borders you’ll ever need. But if you want to add to a table style’s effect by adding an outside border, or if you want to change the borders used in the style, knowing how to customize your table borders will come in handy.

One way to apply borders to your table is to right-click the table and choose Borders And Shading from the shortcut menu. In the Borders And Shading dialog box, you ...

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