Add Borders and Shading

In Word and Excel, you can add borders and shading to paragraphs and worksheet cells, to differentiate them from surrounding content or, in Excel, to indicate a mathematical operation.

Add Borders and Shading

Borders and shading can help to define worksheet content.

To make a paragraph really stand out, you can put a border around it or shade its background. For real drama, you can do both. From the Borders And Shading dialog box or the Borders And Shading panel of the Formatting Palette, you can add borders of various sizes and patterns to any or all sides of a paragraph in a document, or of a cell in a worksheet. With or without a border, you can ...

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