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On Windows 11, is there a way to make the window borders visible aside from the high contrast Accessibility options?

In a sea of dark/night themed windows, I find it very difficult to find where one window ends and the other begins as the borders are nearly invisible on my large 4K monitors. In Registry Editor I ...
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Remove outline/page border in Microsoft Excel

How do I hide the outside grid lines (at the edges of my data header) in Microsoft Excel? I need to have gridlines print/view ON for the rest of the data. I can hide some gridlines in my header, by ...
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Putting borders around the Headers and Footers sections

I want to put borders around the three sections of the Headers and Footers when I print an Excel workbook. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Update As an example for the result, ...
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How to change border width in MS Windows to grab and resize it?

I have a wide monitor (3440 x 1440). My mouse is set to max pointer speed with enhance pointer precision is enabled in order to minimize how far I have to physically move the mouse to get the pointer ...
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Move the page border towards the right in Word 2007

By default, if I add a border to my page, it creates the border line after some 5 pts from the leftmost of the page. Is there any way that I can increase this size? I want the left border to be ...
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Adding Borders or Shadows to Borderless Applications in KDE

I use Kubuntu 23.10 and have multiple apps, that don't use the standard KDE border and titlebar (like Trilium or MS Teams).It's hard to tell, where the app ends, when there is no border and the app ...
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How do you change the grab zone for the top of the window? [duplicate]

I know that I can go into the registry editor and change the border width and paddle border to change the side and bottom grab zones, but how do I change the top of the window grab zone? This is where ...
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MS Word to PDF - table border glitches

I have the following table in an MS Word document - 3 rows, 4 columns, and some horizontal borders: When I save this as PDF, I see some strange glitches with the borders: Note that whether or not ...
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Screen has a black border?

Basically, when I was going to change my screen brightness, I accidentally hit the "auto" button next to the "Menu" button. It changed my screen resolution and I can't fix it. I ...
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Excel borders are there but not shown on print preview and won't be printed

I want to print my excel document, it has box border, but I can't see them on print preview and when I print the document, borders are not printed. Page margins are narrow enough, Page Layout tab > ...
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Microsoft Word 2007: How do I change the default (automatic) border colour?

I have "In Line with Text" images with borders in my document, but the only way to add those borders is through the Paragraph > Borders and Shading option, rather than through the Picture ...
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Windows 10 High contrast - border width

When enabling High Contrast theme in Windows 10, for some reason, the whole system is filled with white boxes. Almost every UI element has this ugly white border (mainly start menu & taskbar). ...
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Excel: My target cells aren't keeping their borders after Paste...Unless I manually drew (clicked on) each border

So this one is rather weird. Say I am copying the value from Cell A into Cells B & C: Cell A (my Copied cell) doesn't have any border formatting. Cell B has a border that I drew by dragging out ...
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How to switch back to Firefox' old style of tabs?

The recent update (89 I think) causes all tabs to render in the same continuous shading, which makes it somehow more difficult to spot each tab's start and end (regardless of the favicon, I'm sorry, ...
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Dynamically page borders in template when the user go to the next page (different on even and odd pages for duplexing)

what is the best way for the borders of the document to change dynamically when the user go to the next page? Currently I use frame and the page borders. But when the user go to the next page, the ...
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Remvove borders from icons on windows 11

I cannot find how to remove white borders from pdf icons. See image:
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Leftmost border on Excel doc doesn't show in print preview / won't print

I have had the issue where the leftmost or topmost border on my Excel sheet doesn't show in print preview & also doesn't print for some time, and I'm pretty sick of it! I've tried fitting columns /...
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How to add top and bottom borders to text in PowerPoint (without right and left borders)

I would like to add borders to text in PowerPoint. I know how to do this using styles in Word but I don't know how to do in PowerPoint. I would like something like this image: . I am not sure if ...
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Black borders around content of site - site content window does not fill up Chrome window

When I open WhatsApp I see these black borders around. One time I got pretty frustrated with some code, and then pressed a lot of keys on the keyboard at the same time and this happened. How would I ...
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VBA - Setting Side Borders in Varying Columns and Rows

Everyday I run a list, it is always different. It will have different amounts of rows with different values in them every day. I have coded it so I have horizontal borders exactly as I want, but now ...
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Excel 2016 - How Do I Change The Border Line Color from Default Black to Another Color

In Excel 2016, the default border line color is black. Is there a way to change the default to another color?
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Table borders created in Word are uneven as PDF

I created a table in Word and added a 2 1/4 pt white border. The table also has shading which was applied to the cells. The table looks fine in Word. However, when I save the document as a PDF, the ...
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Add padding to bordered paragraph

How can I add cell padding (term related to HTML) to a paragraph in Word 2008 (for Mac). Here is a screenshot of how my paragraph looks: How can I add space between the border and the characters?
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Unusual "half border" situation with tmux

My tmux occasionally gets into a weird state where half the border (regardless of orientation, or (tmux) window focus) is bolded, highlighted? See the screenshot below: Weirdly, even after ...
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Microsoft Office Word 365 Border around SVG graphics

I have exported my Illustrator file as an SVG and successfully imported it in Word 365. Now I want to create a black border around the graphic (in word). Whenever I try to do so it just changes the ...
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Create PDF from an Excel file without margins in Windows 7

This question is kind of answered, but that solution doesn't work for Windows 7. I've set margins to 0, no scaling and put colored shape all over printable area (few columns and rows from A1), for ...
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Change border color of multiple cells in Excel 2010?

While it is easy to change the font color and fill color of multiple cells at once in Excel 2010, I can't find a way to do this with border colors. Is this possible?
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1 answer
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Border around selected item on Windows 10

In some software I'm using, a border is appearing around select items in list... Any ideas on how to disable this?
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How to properly set left and top border of a range in Excel when the range is at the top left corner?

I have a range A1:B3 in Excel and I've given a border to it. However, the top and left border look a little bit thinner than the right and bottom border. See below image, I set them all to have the ...
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Border issue in word 2016

When I open an existing doc or create new one, the program always open with borders live below: Can you help guide me how to hide the borders?
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How to combine UI settings from the themes "Windows", "Aero Lite" and "Colored Title Bars"?

I have Win 10 Pro, version: 1809, build: 17763.615, 64-Bit. I found a lot of resources (here on SU, too) describing one or the other and I tried a lot of combinations (including changing HKCU\Control ...
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Why won't my Excel borders print to PDF but they print just fine on regular printer?

I'm entering this as a question even though I found the solution in the hopes that it helps the next person. Using Excel on a Windows PC, I tried printing a document to PDF that I'd previously had no ...
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How to format table's borders so they don't span through the entire table?

My table looks like this: But I need for it to look like this example: They look fairly similar but if you look closely you will see that in the example the borders stop before they reach the end ...
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3 answers
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Remove/change style of evince's red borders around links

Are you aware of a possibility to change the border size/color of the bold red border, evince paints around links (for example in PDF files, that have clickable links in the table of contents). Or is ...
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Bottom page border not being printed on Legal sized pages with an HP LaserJet

I've been facing this problem for the past few days. My printer is an HP LaserJet M1005 MFP. Currently I am using Word 2013. Whenever I try to print a "Legal" sized page with borders, it prints ...
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How to remove Google Chrome window border on Windows 10

As you can see on screenshot Google Chrome Browser (Version 46.0.2490.86 m) has 1px white border around on Windows 10 Build 1511. I suppose it's a native browser interface border, not depending from ...
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How can I make a document print without borders in Microsoft Word 2010?

I've come across a really irritating problem in Microsoft Word related to printing with my Kodak Hero 5.1 printer. This printer is capable of printing single sided sheets fully borderless from within ...
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Monitor black border

I have two monitors model iiyama pl2792q with the same problem: They have a black border at top, left and right, but not at bottom. With the underscan/overscan option I can only make the content ...
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MS Word 2010: don't close frame around text at page end

I have a put a border/frame around a text paragraph, that spans over 3 pages. It is a code sample. The frame has a vertical line at the top of the paragraph on the first page, then 2 vertical lines at ...
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Conditional formatting - Borders over Multiple Rows

I have Cells formatted like this: If the first cell of a triplet contains the word "baz" I want them formatted so there is a border around the triplet as well as some color adjustments. However, in ...
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Remove top bottom black borders from QuickTime movie

I have the attached QuickTime movie, but it has huge borders. Could you please recommend a program which I can use to get rid of the borders?
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Windows 10 update 1 borders too thick and minify/maximize/exit button seperators?

ever since I installed the anniversary update of windows 10, my borders are really thick, and the minify/maximize/close buttons in the top right of a window are seperated by a thin grey line that ...
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How can I add fancy borders to the entire page in LibreOffice Writer?

This seems to be a limitation to Writer, but I thought I'd ask anyway here, on the off chance someone has figured this out, and I'm missing something basic. I'd like to add borders, such as stars or ...
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1 answer
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Powerpoint - EMF - Preserve shape properties

I created a square in Inkscape, set red fill color to it but no stroke and exported as EMF file. I open Powerpoint (2013), inserted the EMF file to a blank page, right click the inserted picture and ...
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Change color existing irregular borders - Excel

I would like to change the existing border color of multiple cells -some of them have only a border at the top/ left or none at all etc- in Excel. Is there a standard option for this, or is can this ...
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EXCEL: How to conditional format a thick bottom border to an entire row based on one column value? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Excel conditional formatting to highlight entire row if one date is not equal to another date in that row I have the following rows... 1 AA 12 13 4 7 1 A 12 ...
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Why are window frames defaulting to large un-themed black and gray lines for enterprise users in Windows 7?

I am using Windows 7 enterprise 64-bit with an admin account and all my windows have buggy looking dark and light gray lines around them like this: By changing advanced performance settings in the ...
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Additional Borders on windows in Awesome

I have an Arch Linux 64-bit install running Awesome-WM, However I seem to have a problem with the borders on opened windows(Generally in gtk apps) Also I have Compton Composition Manager running ...
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Thin, non-resizable window borders are displayed incorrectly

On my PC with Windows 7 SP 1, the borders of all non-resizable windows (for example all dialog boxes or the calculator) look like the left of the two images below. The border is far too thin and ...
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Outputting to TV screen issue. Black bar around screen and crashes on graphic heavy processes

I am running Windows 7 SP1 on an AMD Phenom X4 with a Radeon 6770 1GB graphics card and 8GB RAM. The computer runs fine until I try to output to my TV instead of computer monitor. I have a persistent ...

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