When you add borders to paragraphs, the left and right indentation on the paragraph is unchanged, and the border is drawn around the paragraph. This means that the border may extend into the text margins, if necessary. At times, this can look funny or even distracting in your page layout.
The solution is to adjust the paragraph margins so that when the border is drawn, it does not extend beyond the normal text margins. To do this, you will need to experiment with the margin settings for the paragraph. The following hints may help:
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2015-10-23 09:52:27
andrex
It does only reach 31 points maximum and how can I make it to 72...?
2014-01-11 21:31:45
Just put "points cm inches" in a web search. You will get info like:
1 Inch = 72 Points [Postscript]
1 Point = 0.01388888889 Inch
and
1 Centimetre = 28.3464567 Points [Postscript]
1 Point = 0.0352777778 Centimetres
2014-01-11 13:45:48
Juan
How can I convert inches or centimeters to points?
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