Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 2, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365
If you have added a border around a paragraph in your document, you may later want to remove the border. This is easy to do by following these steps:
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