PUB98: Most BorderArt Has a White Background

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A BorderArt pattern consists of up to eight different tiles and a preview. There can be one tile for each corner and one tile that is repeated to make each of the four sides. To assure that lines that extend across tiles are aligned correctly, some BorderArt tiles are drawn with a solid or transparent square as the background and the design elements are drawn on top of the solid or transparent square. To ensure consistency, Publisher fills in the background when displaying a BorderArt tile, even if the tile does not actually contain a background.

If you want a BorderArt pattern to appear in Publisher with a transparent background, you can copy a rectangle with the BorderArt pattern applied to it into a drawing program such as CorelDRAW! or Microsoft Draw. Manipulate the picture to remove the opaque backgrounds. To do this with Microsoft Draw, follow these steps:

1. Draw a rectangle and apply the BorderArt pattern you want to use.
2. Select the rectangle and then click Cut on the Edit menu.
3. On the Insert menu, click Object.
4. Click Microsoft Draw 98 Drawing in the list of object types.
5. In Microsoft Draw, click Paste on the Edit menu.
6. On the Draw menu, click Ungroup. Click Yes when asked if you want to convert your drawing. Your border now appears as several separate but selected objects.
7. Click on a blank portion of the drawing area to deselect everything. You can now click on each of the white background rectangles and delete them.
   
   NOTE: You may want to draw a large colored rectangle and send it to the back to make it easier to see the white background rectangles.
8. Click outside of the drawing object area.