WD98: Some Paragraph Border Styles Are Not Transparent

• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you view a document in online layout view, some paragraph border styles do not appear to be transparent.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when you apply a background color to a document that contains one of the following paragraph border styles:

   Dotted line       (third style)
   Dashed line       (fourth style)
   Dot-dash line     (fifth style)
   Dot-dot-dash line (sixth style)
   Zig-zag line      (eighteenth style)
   Zig-zag line      (nineteenth style)
   Striped line      (twentieth style)

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use a different border style to border the text. Do not use one of the styles listed in the "Cause" section of this article.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition provides a new document viewing option called online layout view. This view optimizes the layout to make reading the text easier. To do this, Word increases the text size and wraps the text to fit inside the current window configuration. This view is designed primarily to view HTML or Web style documents that support background colors and textures. The changes made to the document to enhance readability affect the display of the document only.

Online Layout View allows you to format the background color of the document window to make it easier to present and read the document. The background color does not print with the document. The view also allows you to apply text borders.

To apply a border style, use the following steps:

1. Select the text around which you want to place a border.

2. On the Format menu, click Borders and Shading.

3. Under Style, click the border style you want and click OK.