Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
    • Your Publication's Art
    • Extra Shapes
    • Designing with the Design Gallery
    • Getting Help with the Design Checker
    • Putting Borders Around Your Publications
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Putting Borders Around Your Publications

You might want to place a border around your entire publication or perhaps around a single text box or art frame. A border looks nice around smaller publications you create, such as placeholders for dinner guests. You might want to create your own business cards and place a border around your company's name.

Publisher makes it easy to place borders, either before or after you finish creating the material that is to go within the border. Placing a border requires only that you format an element, such as an art frame, and specify the border you desire.

To Do: Add a Frame

To add a border to a publication's art frame, follow these steps:

1. Click the frame that holds the art where you want a border to appear. You can add an empty art frame if you want to add a border before adding the art.
2. Right-click the art frame and select Format Picture. The Format Picture dialog box appears.
3. Click the Border Art button to display the BorderArt dialog box shown in Figure 24.6.
   

   Figure 24.6 The BorderArt dialog box determines the size, color, number of sides, and thickness of your border lines.

   The BorderArt dialog box page lets you specify the kind of border you want as well as its properties. In addition, you can determine whether artwork that will go inside the border (if you plan to place art inside the border) is to stretch to fit the border or whether the border's picture is to retain its size even if the border is much larger than the figure.
4. You can click the Create Custom button to make your own border art. Once you enter the name of a picture (from the Clip Gallery or other image), Publisher repeats that image to build a border that you can name and save in the list of borders that appear.
5. Click OK to save the border art on your editing area. You now can resize the border as you would any other box or graphic image on the publication.

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