Designing Page Layouts: Borders, Backgrounds & Watermarks in Zoho Writer

Designing Page Layouts: Borders, Backgrounds & Watermarks in Zoho Writer

The design of a document has a lot to do with how readers perceive its content. Writer has various design options to make your document look professional and polished. You can select from a set of colorful border designs, use watermarks, add page color and more.

Set page border

Writer allows adding a simple or an image border to the pages of your document. You can use page borders for styling or making flyers and certificates.

To set page border,

  1. Click More > Page Setup > Design tab
  2. Select the page color icon under Page Background.

Border Properties

You can manage the border distance and apply custom style and margins under border properties.

Select sides: Choose all sides or any specific side to apply a border to your page.

Border color: Set a unique color to your page border.

Border width: Click to choose the width of the page border. You can set width up to 10px.

Border style: Apply line style to your border.

Border radius: Set radius to the border's corner. You can set it under the Border Properties header.

Notes
Please note that you can apply these styles only to normal border and image borders cannot be customized.

Distance from text: Choose the distance of your border from the text. You can choose an option from the dropdown or apply custom margin, if required.

Custom margins: Click Custom margins to customize the distance as per your needs.

Show border on: You can add border to all the pages or just for your title page to make it unique.

Set page background

If you want to make interesting sketches or you simply' want a colored background, you can go for page color.

To apply a page background color,

  1. Click More > Page Setup > Design tab
  2. Select the page color icon under Page Background.
  3. Select the required color from the palette. The page background color will be set. Click the Reset button to reset the page background color.

Insert watermark

You can use a watermark to give washed-out text or images at the background of the pages in your document.
To use watermark,
  1. Click More > Page Setup > Design tab .
  2. Click Watermark.
  3. To insert a piece of text as watermark, select the As Text option, enter the text, font, font size, font color, placement (horizontal or diagonal), and click Apply. To insert an image as watermark, select the As Picture option, upload the image, select Scale and Washout limits and click Apply.
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Tip: You can add a merge field as a watermark text or image.


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