

In the Format Shape pane, select Size/Layout & Properties. If you want to change multiple text boxes or shapes, click the first text box or shape, and then press and hold Ctrl while you click the other text boxes or shapes. I'm writing a macro which creates a powerpoint presentation and then copys data from a spreadsheet and adds a title and a textbox. On the shortcut menu, select Format Shape. You can also select a graphic border from the “Art” drop-down list.įor example, we chose the graphic border that displays a thumbtack on a page with the upper-right corner folded over. Right-click the border of the shape or text box that contains the text you want to wrap. To insert a shape onto the slide, Open the insert tab from the ribbon. It has all the same properties of a shape apart from the fact there is text in it. It is useful to know that a text box is a shape. The “Setting” options on the “Borders and Shading” dialog box allow you to choose a plain “Box” border, a “Shadow” border, a “3-D” border, or a “Custom” border where you can choose different options for each side of the border. Before you can animate the outline of shape, you need to insert a shape or text box. Click “OK” once you’ve made your selections. If you select “Text”, the default “Margin” measurements change accordingly and all the check boxes in the “Options” section become available.

Use a Setting option on the left or the buttons below Preview on the right to add the border around the text. Click the drop-down arrow next to Borders and choose Borders and Shading. Select whether to measure the margin for the page border from the “Edge of page” or “Text” in the “Measure from” drop-down list. Select the 'Shape Effects' menu located right underneath the 'Shape Outline' selection to add a shadow to your border. Select the text you want to surround with a border and go to the Home tab. Currently in formatting, there are only 2 headers 'Background' and 'General'. I would like to add a border to my grouped visuals (I have combined 2 standard multi-row cards). Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click Shape Outline, and then click No Outline. Hi, We can now group visuals However there are limited formatting options available once you have gone down this path. If you want to change multiple text boxes or shapes, click the first text box or shape, and then press and hold Ctrl while you click the other text boxes or shapes. To change where the border displays on the page, you can change the margins for the border. Select the text box or shape border that you want to remove. If you want to add a page border to a page in the middle of your document, insert a section break right before the page to which you want to add the border. Select an option from the “Apply to” drop-down list to apply the border to pages in the “Whole document”, just “This section”, “This section – First page only”, or “This section – All except first page”.
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Now you need to tell Word to which pages you want to apply the border.
