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Article ID: 212615 - Last Review: June 29, 1999 - Revision: 1.0
PUB2000: Most BorderArt Has a White Background
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All BorderArt patterns appear in Microsoft Publisher with a solid
background color. Typically, this color is white. If you apply a BorderArt pattern to a rectangle or frame and then place a colored frame behind it, you will see the shapes in the BorderArt pattern surrounded by a solid color border.
Some of the BorderArt patterns do not have a solid background color. When
you use them in Publisher, the white background is added.
A BorderArt pattern consists of up to eight different tiles and a preview.
There can be one tile for each corner and one tile that is repeated to make
each of the four sides. To make sure the lines that extend across tiles are
aligned correctly, some BorderArt tiles are drawn with a solid or
transparent square as the background and the design elements are drawn on top of the solid or transparent square. To ensure consistency, Publisher fills in the background when you display a BorderArt tile, even if the tile does not actually contain a background.
If you want a BorderArt pattern to appear in Publisher with a
transparent background, you can copy a rectangle with the BorderArt
pattern applied to it into a drawing program such as CorelDraw! or
Microsoft Draw. Manipulate the picture to remove the opaque backgrounds.
To do this with Microsoft Draw, follow these steps:
- Draw a rectangle and apply the BorderArt pattern you want to use.
- Click to select the rectangle, and then click Cut on the Edit menu.
- On the Insert menu, click Object.
- Click Microsoft Draw 98 Drawing in the list of object types.
- In Microsoft Draw, click Paste on the Edit menu.
- On the Draw menu, click Ungroup. Click Yes when you are prompted to convert your drawing. Your border now appears as several separate but selected objects.
- Click on a blank portion of the drawing area to deselect everything.
You can now click on each of the white background rectangles and delete
them.
NOTE: You may want to draw a large colored rectangle and send it
to the back to make it easier to see the white background rectangles.
- Click outside of the drawing object area.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Publisher 2000 Standard Edition
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