Make sure the insertion point is within the word for which there should be vertical lines on both sides.When you collapse the field you end up with 'myword' centered between the pipe characters.Īnother method is to simply type your word and then format the paragraph so that it has borders at the left and right sides. Just insert a set of field braces (by pressing Ctrl+F9) and then making sure the field looks like this: If you are comfortable with the use of fields in a document, you could also try using the pipe character with the EQ field. Type the pipe, a few spaces, the word, the same number of spaces, and then another pipe character. On most keyboards the pipe, or vertical bar, is a shifted version of the \ character. One way is to use the 'pipe' character before and after your word. If you want to add vertical lines at the left and right of a word (perhaps for a page title), you can do so easily using any one of several different methods. Word allows you to easily add all sorts of flourishes to the text in your document.