Liven up a Word document by adding a colorful border. With Word's auto-formatted borders, you won't have to create lines or adjust anything to fit the page's margins, as it's all done for you.

Learn how to create and add a custom border in Word around a picture, document, text box or any other object by following this tutorial.

By default, the border is a solid, thin line, but if you've previously applied a custom border to any part of your document it'll use the same options.

There's not one, but two easy ways to insert a horizontal line into a Word document.