Add a vertical line in Microsoft Word to draw attention to special content or help define elements.

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.

The default document settings in Word 2010 create documents with the necessary margins and justification, but you have to do a bit more formatting to create a document with full block configuration.

Release the mouse button to place a vertical text box on the document. Type any text in the text box, and Word makes the text flow from top to bottom.

There are several different types of lines you can insert in a Word document with simple keyboard shortcuts.

If you keep creating documents with the same structure and similar content, then you should be using a template to save time – Here's how on Microsoft Word.