Add Borders to Text in Word Documents Using Java

In Microsoft Word, borders can be used to make documents more attractive and beautiful. You can add them to specific text of a paragraph, a whole paragraph or a page. This article will introduce how to add borders to specific text or a whole paragraph using Java codes.

DEPENDENCY

First of all, you’re required to add Spire.Doc.jar to your Java program. You can get it from the link, or create a Maven project, and import the following codes to the pom.xml file.

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url> https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
<artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId>
<version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

USING THE CODE

 Free Spire.Doc for Java supports not only adding a border to a specific text of a paragraph, but also appending a border to a whole paragraph. The following are detailed steps for reference.

l  Create a Document instance and a new Word document.

l  Add a section to the document using Document.addSection() method.

l  Add a paragraph to the section using Section.addParagraph() method.

l  Append text to the paragraph, add border to the text and set style and color of the border.

l  Append other text to the same paragraph using Paragraph.appendText() method.

l  Append break to the end of the paragraph using Paragraph.appedBreak() method.

l  Add another paragraph to the document using Section.addParagraph() method.

l  Append text to the paragraph, add border to it and set style and color of the border.

l  Save the document to another file using Document.saveToFile() method.

import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
import com.spire.doc.Section;
import com.spire.doc.documents.BorderStyle;
import com.spire.doc.documents.BreakType;
import com.spire.doc.documents.Paragraph;
import com.spire.doc.fields.TextRange;

import java.awt.*;

public class AddBorder {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Create a Document instance
        Document doc = new Document();

        //Add a section
        Section section = doc.addSection();

        //Append text and add a border to it
        Paragraph para = section.addParagraph();
        TextRange tr = para.appendText("Java");
        tr.getCharacterFormat().getBorder().setBorderType(BorderStyle.Single);
        tr.getCharacterFormat().getBorder().setColor(Color.RED);
        String text = " is a popular programming language, created in 1995. " +
                "It is owned by Oracle, and more than 3 billion devices run Java.";
        para.appendText(text);
        para.appendBreak(BreakType.Line_Break);

        //Add a border to a paragraph
        para = section.addParagraph();
        String text2 = "Java is an object oriented language which gives a clear structure to programs " +
                "and allows code to be reused, lowering development costs" ;
        para.appendText(text2);
        para.getFormat().getBorders().setBorderType(BorderStyle.Single);
        para.getFormat().getBorders().setColor(Color.RED);

        //Save the document
        doc.saveToFile("output/AddBorder.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2013);
    }
}