Using Border Painter, you can apply a Border & Shading to a Table and change its Color in Microsoft Word documents. Learn how!

Wrangle unruly text into easy-to-read formats using Word 2013's improved tables features.

Tips There is another way to make a colorful border in Word, which is especially useful when you want a border for something other than the entire page, like a text box or column.

Fortunately, there’s an easier solution: Modify the built-in table of contents styles. Word’s table of contents styles Word uses a dedicated set of styles to format a table of contents.