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In this tutorial, you will learn the exact steps to add a border to a specific page in Microsoft Word without affecting the rest of your document. By default, Word applies borders to every page, but using Section Breaks allows you to isolate a single page for custom formatting.

What you will learn:

How to insert Next Page Section Breaks correctly.

How to access the Page Borders menu in the Design tab.

Using the "Apply to: This Section" setting to isolate your border.

Troubleshooting common border alignment issues.

This method works for MS Word 2019, 2021, and Microsoft 365.

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00:00in this video i will show you how to add border to specific page in word document make sure
00:05applying border to just one specific page is required using section breaks without these
00:12breaks word will apply the border to every page in your document by default so here is the step
00:17by step process to isolate a single page here you can see that i have 11 pages so make sure
00:24to
00:24isolate the page you must tell word where the special formatting starts and end so now go to
00:30the beginning of the page where you want the border for example i'll be selecting the fourth page
00:38so click on the beginning of the page and then click the layout tab on the ribbon
00:45and click on the breaks and click on the next page
00:54and now move to the bottom of the same page and repeat the process
01:03again go to the layout and click on the breaks and click on the next page now once your page
01:11is its
01:12on section you can apply the design so click anywhere on the page you want the border and then go
01:19to the
01:19design tab in the ribbon and click on the page borders and now here you have to configure the border
01:31so click on the page border and on the left side you need to select the border style for example
01:373d border
01:39and here you need to select the style of the line for example i'll be selecting the three line border
01:47and now click on the color and choose the color of your choice for example i'll be selecting this purple
01:56you need to select the width for example for one way of pt and now most important step change the
02:04drop down
02:05from whole document to this section and click ok to apply now you can see that this specific page in
02:16world has the border let me zoom out so you can easily see that and here it is moreover you
02:24can also
02:25adjust the border if the border is cutting off or looks so close to the text for this you need
02:31to click the
02:32page border and click on this option on the bottom in the right of the dialog box and here you
02:41need to
02:41adjust the margins from top bottom and left right for example i'll be selecting 18 pt from top and
02:51bottom and 20 pt from left and right and click ok and now again make sure you need to select
03:01this section
03:02only click ok to proceed and here you can see that the border has been adjusted so this way you
03:10can easily
03:11add border to the specific page in word document if you think this video is helpful please support my
03:16channel thanks for watching
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