Numbers User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- What’s new
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        - Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Customise the toolbar
- Touchscreen basics
- Use Apple Pencil with Numbers
 
- Copyright

Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text in Numbers on iPad
You can add a solid, dashed or dotted rule (line) above or below a paragraph in a text box or shape.
Note: If the text is in a table cell, you can add a border around the cell. See Change the table outline and gridlines.

- Go to the Numbers app  on your iPad. on your iPad.
- Open a spreadsheet, then select the text where you want to add the border or rule. 
- Tap  in the toolbar, tap Text near the top of the menu, tap Paragraph Borders & Background, then turn on Borders. in the toolbar, tap Text near the top of the menu, tap Paragraph Borders & Background, then turn on Borders.- A rule appears above each paragraph you selected. 
- Do any of the following:  - Add one or more lines: Tap one or more position buttons under the Borders switch. 
- Choose a different line style: Tap Style, then make a selection. 
- Choose a colour that goes with your template: Tap Colour, tap Preset, swipe left or right to see all the options, then tap a colour. 
- Choose any colour: Tap Colour, tap Colour, then select a colour. 
- Choose a colour from elsewhere on the spreadsheet: Tap Colour, tap Colour, then swipe left to the colour wheel. Tap  , then tap any colour on the spreadsheet. , then tap any colour on the spreadsheet.- To preview colours, touch and hold the colour on the spreadsheet, then drag across other colours on the spreadsheet. Release your finger to select a colour. 
- Change the line thickness: Tap the + or – next to Width. 
- Change the amount of space between the line or border and the text: Tap the + or – next to Border Offset. 
 
To quickly remove the border or rule, select the text with the border or rule, tap  , tap Paragraph Borders & Background, then turn off Borders.
, tap Paragraph Borders & Background, then turn off Borders.