Sometimes when editing a document in MicrosoftWord, it becomes necessary to delete lines along the edges of the page, around the text, pasted objects, tables, or in headers and footers called borders. About how to remove the framework in the "Word" versions 2003, 2007, 2010, and this article will tell.
Removing Borders in Word 2003: Through the Format Section
It allows you to get rid of the lines around any element, except the borders at the edges of the page. The procedure is as follows:
Select text, image or other object inside the frame.
On the menu bar in the "Format" section, go to the "Borders and Fill" item.
Switch to the first tab and click on the button next to "No".
The way how to remove frames in the Word from the margins of the sheet contains only one difference compared to the previous one. To delete them in the dialog box called by the "Borders and Fill" command, you need to put a similar mark in the second tab.
If the border around the page should be absent only on certain sheets of the document, then before and after them you need to insert "Section break". This is done using a sequence of commands: "Insert" => "Break" => mark next to "From the next page."
After that you need to position the cursor on a sheet where there should be no frames, and call the "Borders and Fill" dialog box. In the "Apply to ..." drop-down list located in the lower right corner, select "To this section".
This tip applies to newer versions of the editor.
Removing Borders in Word 2003: Via the Quick Access Toolbar
This method is simpler and faster than the previous one, since it uses the quick access panel. But it is only effective for removing borders around objects. To remove the border on the margins of the sheet, it is not suitable. The algorithm of actions is as follows:
- Select the part of the document surrounded by a border.
- In the "Formatting" panel (enabled by default), find the "External Borders" button. She is the third, if counted from the right end.
- Click on the inverted triangle and select the empty one in the list of icons that appears. It is called "Remove Borders."
For inserted pictures, there is a way to remove frames in Word. It consists in the fact that the dialog box that controls them is called up from the context menu using the "Borders and Fill" item.
Removing borders in headers and footers: Word 2003
Sometimes frames are present at the top or bottom of a sheet called footers. To remove this design element from them, you need to make them editable using the sequence of commands "View" => "Headers and footers". After that, you need to select the text content and use the first or second algorithm.
This is the way, as in “Word” to remove the frame, and leave the text.
Removing Borders in Word 2007, 2010: Through the Page Layout Tab
This procedure in versions 2007 and 2010 is performed as follows:
- Switch to the Page Layout tab.
- Select the object around which there is a frame. If you want to remove lines in the margins of a sheet, then you do not need to select anything.
- Click the "Page Borders" button located in the "Page Background" block.
- In the dialog box, switch to the "Border" or "Page" tab, depending on where you want to remove the border: around the object \ text or in the margins of the document.
- Left-click on the button next to the inscription "No".
This is the way how to remove the frame in the "Word" 2007 or 2010.
Removing Borders in Word 2007,2010: Via the Home Tab
In these versions, as in Microsoft Word 2003, there is an easier way. It comes down to the following algorithm:
- Select text or part of the contents of a table.
- In the "Home" tab in the "Paragraph" block, click on the inverted triangle near the "External Borders" button. It is located in the lower right corner of the block.
- In the drop-down list, select "No Border".
In order to remove the outer frame around the pictures, graphs or SmartArt diagrams, you need to:
- Click on an object.
- Go to the last tab called "Format."
- In the "Styles of shapes" section, click on the inscription "Shape outline".
- In the drop-down list, click "No outline".
Note: by default, the inserted frame and images do not have an external frame.
In addition to using the "Format" tab, you can remove the borders of such objects in a different way. After selecting the contents of the frame you need:
- Right-click and in the pop-up menu that appears, select the sub-item "Image / Object Format".
- In the new dialog box, go to the "Line color" section and put a check mark next to the line "No lines."
This completes the description of how to remove frames in Word 2010 or 2007.
Removing borders in headers and footers: Word 2007, 2010
To remove the borders around the contents inside the footer or header, you must first make it editable. This is done in 2 ways. The first is to double-click LMB at the top or bottom of the sheet. The second is to click on the "Header / Footer" button (the "Insert" section) and select "Change Header" from the drop-down list.
Next, you can use the first or second method of how to remove the frame in the "Word" 2007 or 2010.
If the contents of the footer are not needed, then you can delete the entire one using the command of the same name in the list called by the "Header / Footer" button. You can find them in the tabs "Insert" or "Designer".
To summarize, we can say that the ways to remove frames around a page or other objects in Word in versions 2003 and 2007/2010 differ only in the sequence of actions, the reason for which is a different program interface.