There are two ways to add a border to a PowerPoint slide. You can create a simple border by drawing an unfilled shape on your slide and editing the line style, thickness, and color of the line. To create a more elaborate border, consider the variety of border clips available on the Microsoft Office
Web site. You can insert one on a slide and then rotate or resize it.
Do any of the following:
 | Create a simple border |
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On the Home tab, under Insert, click Shape, and then click Shape Browser.
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Click the shape that you want to use — a rectangle, for example.
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Click the slide, and drag to a draw a shape that is almost as large as the slide.
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With the shape selected, on the Format tab, under Shape Styles, click Fill, and then click No Fill.
To change the outline color of the shape, on the Format tab, under Shape Styles, click Line, and then click the color that you want.
To make the outline wider or narrower, dashed, or another style, on the Format tab, under Shape Styles, click Line. To change the width of the line, point to Weights, and then click the point size that you want. To change the outline to dashed, point to Dashed, and then click the dashed line style that you want.
| Create a more elaborate border using clip art |
There are hundreds of styles of clip art that you can use to create a decorative border on a slide. These clip art borders were created for Office for Windows, but they also work on Office for Mac. Some border styles are in the shape of a hollow rectangle, and you can just resize them to look like a border along the edge of your slide. Other clip art border styles are solid shapes, and you may need to copy and paste or rotate or flip the shape to make it repeat around the edge of your slide.
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Open
Images
on the Microsoft Office
Web site.
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To find the image that you want, type
border into the Search box.
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Rest your pointer on the clip that you want, and then click Download.
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In PowerPoint, on the Format menu, click Slide Background.
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Click Fill, and then on the Picture or Texture tab, click Choose Picture.
 | Tip If you use Safari or Firefox, you can quickly locate the file that you downloaded. In the Dock, click Downloads, and then drag the file to the Choose a Picture dialog box. |
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Select the file that you downloaded, click Insert, and then click Apply.
| Tip To resize placeholders to fit inside the border, click the placeholder, and then drag the handles to resize the placeholder. To move the placeholder, drag a placeholder border. |
