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Old 01-25-2015, 11:26 AM
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Is there a way to change a border to a special character?

I want the top line to be a line, as well as the bottom line. No problem there of course.



But I want the right line to be a special character, specifically in my case, the character:

)

These are for legal documents and the court requires the ) as the vertical line on all motions.

This was great for back in the day using a typewriter. Not so good trying to do it with a WP.
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Old 01-25-2015, 01:49 PM
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Here is a link to a process that I used not too long ago that may help you: http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/BorderArt.htm. It goes through all four borders, but if you are only concerned with one border, it would suffice there as well.

Hope this helps...
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Old 01-25-2015, 02:41 PM
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What you are talking about is not really a border but a vertical line of right parenthesesn in a caption. A caption should really be a borderless Table. You can have one narrow cell in the table that simply holds the parentheses.
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Old 01-25-2015, 04:57 PM
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What you are talking about is not really a border but a vertical line of right parenthesesn in a caption. A caption should really be a borderless Table. You can have one narrow cell in the table that simply holds the parentheses.
I think my idea is best! Maybe in a future development!

Regardless, I took your suggestion and just added a center column to accomplish my goal. Matches the court sample perfectly!
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Old 01-25-2015, 06:50 PM
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If you want to do it without a table, you can put a decimal tab setting where you want the ) character and tab and type it. This gets very messy when you try editing, though.
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Old 02-28-2015, 10:44 PM
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What you are talking about is not really a border but a vertical line of right parenthesesn in a caption. A caption should really be a borderless Table. You can have one narrow cell in the table that simply holds the parentheses.
This is not really a solution. The advantage of a table cell is that the height automatically changes every time you hit Enter. With a narrow center cell to hold the ")" you have to manually key in every paren.

The prior post had it right. Figure out a way to have a ")" as the right border art.
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