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How to create border around text in Word document?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-08-09

As below screenshot shown, how to add borders around selected texts for each line in a Word document? The method in this article can do you a favor.

Borders added around each selected paragraph

Create border around text in Word


Create border around text in Word

You can easily add borders around selected texts with the Borders feature in Word. Please do as follows.

1. Select the texts you will add borders, click Home > Borders > Borders and Shading. See screenshot:

Borders and Shading option on the Home tab on the ribbon

2. In the Borders and Shading dialog box, select the Up, Down, Left and Right border boxes in the Preview section, select Text from the Apply to drop-down, and then click the OK button.

Borders and Shading dialog box

Then borders are added to every row of selected texts.

Note: If you just want to add a big border around all selected texts as below screenshot shown, please keep Paragraph selected in the Apply to drop-down list.

Borders added around the selected text

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