In Excel, you can't add a top border to the footer.

In Word, in the footer, click somewhere in the first line
In the Formatting toolbar, click the arrow at the right of the Border button
Click on the Top Border button, to apply a top border to the first
paragraph in the footer.

Ed Isenberg wrote:
I am using Excel 2002, but this seems to be a problem for me with Word 2002
as well. I want to format my footer with a top border (i.e., there should be
a border-line just over the footer and between it and the rest of the page.

I seem to remember being able to do this. With Word, I can format the footer
with a box around it, but that looks awful. I just want a nice descrete line
over the footer to separate it from the body of the page.

Clicking the Text Format Tool while in headers/footers only formats the
font, its size, underline/bold/italics, etc. No border lines are available as
options.

I've checked Help and the various FAQs but can't find anything on this
subject, although it would seem to me to be a common request.

Thanks for any help you can give me.


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Debra Dalgleish
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