You can apply borders and backgrounds to pages in Writer as with paragraphs and other elements. Page background and borders fill the area within the margins, including the header or footer (if any).

Borders

To edit page borders click on the  icon on the Page panel of the Properties deck in sidebar to open the Page Style dialog and select the Borders Tab.

In this window you can set the border settings

  • line arrangement
  • line style, width and color,
  • shadow
  • spacing to contents

To set more complex line arrangements click on the User-defined box

Background

Background Area

To set the page background first click on the icon on the Page panel of the Properties deck in sidebar to open the Page Style dialog and select the Area Tab. Here you can choose one of the background options.

With the bitmap option you can set a graphic as a page background.

Background Transparency

If the background makes the text difficult to read you can set a transparency to the background. Click on the Transparency tab and increase the setting to a desired value.

Example page with background and borders

Background type: color
Transparency: 50%
Borders line arrangement: Left and Right
Spacing to contents: 1cm
Last modified: Saturday, 3 March 2018, 4:14 PM