Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out)

Overview

Sometimes producing a simple document on a clean white page is the best approach for communicating a message as clearly as possible. But other times, you might want to impress your audience with a little pizzazz by enhancing a document's look, sparking up the design, and showing readers you really know what you're doing. One approach you can use to present more than simple text-on-paper is to use borders and shading to create effective, eye-catching document designs.

A few ways you can use borders and shading include:

• Creating a border around a table

• Setting a heading as white text in a dark box

• Showcasing a special section of text that accompanies an article

• Setting off a table of contents so readers can read it easily

• Offsetting areas of Web pages with shading

Of course, you'll probably come up with numerous other ways to use borders and shading after you master the basics of Word 2003.