How to add bottom border to text in Word?
Solution 1
Have you tried just using the underline?
Solution 2
You can add just a top border or bottom border to a paragraph in MS word; but most annoyingly this feature does not work unless you first select a whole paragraph. then you can select the "top border" or whatever from the menu options. If you've just selected a line of the paragraph, or a word or two, you'll get a full box round whatever you selected.
This is very annoying, and it took me a frustrating while to work out why I kept getting a full border instead of a top border.
Solution 3
You cannot add a bottom (or any single edge) border to text in Microsoft Word. Instead, use underline.
Regular text has only one border. The following macro confirms.
MsgBox Selection.Font.Borders.Count
As stated below, a Paragraph has four borders (left, right, top, bottom).
MsgBox Selection.Sections(1).Borders.Count
The number of members in the Borders collection is finite and varies depending on the type of object. For example, a table has six elements in the Borders collection, whereas a paragraph has four.
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Ian Boyd
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Ian Boyd over 1 year
I have some text in Word:
And i want some portion to have a bottom border:
So performing the obvious action (and the action documented by Microsoft in KB 145149), i select to apply a Bottom Border:
But rather than applying a bottom border, it applies all Outside Borders:
The reason i know it's all "Outside Border", is because Word tells me:
How do i place a line under text in Word (2010, 64-bit, Windows 10, on a Friday)?
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cnread about 7 yearsAs the KB article that you linked to states, the border method that you're trying to use for individual parts of a paragraph works for whole paragraphs only. Did you try applying underlining to spaces (or tab spaces), setting a tab leader, or inserting a drawing object?
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