Formatting lines and borders

Chart areas, plot areas, columns, bars, and many other chart elements have…borders and you sometimes want to change them.…You can adjust the color, the thickness, and the type or style of border.…Let's start with the title here in this chart on the left side of the screen here.…By way of the Format tab in the Ribbon rather than filling in the shape, how…about a shape outline here of one of these colors?…Possibly one of these here. Pick one.…If you want to change the style you might also notice here under Shape Outline,…the Weight here or Dashes.…

Now, you can get to these in another way too and some people prefer this approach.…If we simply double-click the border of the title here, the Format Chart Title…dialog box appears and here's the Border Color. Again, we could have started…here as well too by the way, and possibly we're going to change the color or…the gradient line, a line that varies in its color. I doubt if most people would want that.…Let's go back here and choose Border Styles.…