• Sections
  • About Nested Sections
  • About Section Formatting
  • About Sections
  • Ambiguous Section Dialog
  • Manual Section Sort Dialog
  • Name Conflict With Section Sort Groups Dialog
  • Section Copy Data Dialog
  • Section Resize Dialog
  • Sections Dialog
  • Specify Section Dialog
  • Assigning Labels to Sections
  • Building and Assigning a Section Header
  • Creating a Box
  • Creating a Shaded Area
  • Creating a Vertical Line
  • Deleting a Section Label
  • Keeping the Lines of a Section Together
  • Locate a Labelled Section
  • Modifying Section Formatting
  • Navigating to a Labelled Section Using Events
  • Removing Boxes or Shaded Areas
  • Removing Section Formatting
  • Resizing a Section
  • Skipping a Section

Creating a Box

1. Drag the pointer to select the area in which you want to draw a box.

2. On the Home tab, click Section, and then click the Boxes tab.

3. Click New box to design a new box for the selected area.
4. Type or select the left and right positions for the box using the horizontal ruler as a guideline.
5. Type or select the vertical distance from the top of the section to the top of the box.
6. Type or select the vertical distance from the bottom of the section to the bottom of the box.
7. In the Line thickness box, type or select the thickness of the line.
8. To draw lines on all sides of the box, select the Top of box, Bottom of box, Left side and Right side check boxes.
9. To apply a background color to the contents of the box, type or select a color in the Shading color box.
10. If desired, enter a skip condition to set when the box will be displayed.
11. Repeat steps 3 through 9 to create additional boxes for the selected area and then click OK.

Related Topics

• About Sections
• Creating a Vertical Line