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How to stop border lines indenting on bullet lists?

Anonymous
2018-09-27T17:11:33+00:00

So I have a document that I want to have left/right border lines on.  However, when I do a bullet list, it moves the border line in as well.  How do I fix this automatic setting?

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-09-27T17:35:47+00:00

    The only way around this is to put the text in a table cell and apply borders to the cell. But if what you're shooting for is a double line down the left side of the page and a single line on the right (as in a pleading), you can accomplish this with page borders or with lines anchored to the header.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-09-27T17:45:34+00:00

    so I changed it to page borders, but now the line numbering has 'inside' the page borders.  How do I get the line numbers to be outside the double line?

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-09-27T22:43:13+00:00

    In the Border and Shading Options for the page border, change the location of the page border from "Edge of page" to "Text" (which actually means the page margin).

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