Enable Property

Applies To

Borders collection object.

Description

Returns or sets border formatting for the specified object. Returns True or wdUndefined if border formatting is applied to all or part of the specified object. Can be set to True, False, or a WdLineStyle constant. Read/write Long.

Remarks

The Enable property applies to all borders for the specified object. True sets the line style to the default line style and sets the line width to the default line width. The default line style and line width can be set using the DefaultBorderLineWidth and DefaultBorderLineStyle properties.

To remove all the borders from an object, set the Enable property to False, as shown in the following example.

ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Borders.Enable = False

To remove or apply a single border, use Borders(index), where index is a WdBorderType constant, to return a single border, and then set the LineStyle property. The following example removes the bottom border from myRange.

myRange.Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone

See Also

Borders property, DefaultBorderColorIndex property, DefaultBorderLineStyle property, DefaultBorderLineWidth property, LineStyle property, LineWidth property.

Example

This example removes all borders from the first cell in table one.

If ActiveDocument.Tables.Count >= 1 Then
    ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Borders.Enable = False
End If

This example applies a dashed border around the first paragraph in the selection.

Options.DefaultBorderLineWidth = wdLineWidth025pt
Selection.Paragraphs(1).Borders.Enable = wdLineStyleDashSmallGap

This example applies a border around the first character in the selection. If nothing is selected, the border is applied to the first character after the insertion point.

Selection.Characters(1).Borders.Enable = True