About borders in Office Word 2007. You can add a border to any or all sides of each page in a document, to pages in a section, to the first page only, or to all pages except the first. You can add page borders in many line styles and colors, as well as a variety of graphical borders.dd a border to a page. On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Background group, click Page Borders. Make sure you are on the Page Border tab in the Borders and Shading dialog box. Click one of the border options under Settings.