Add a boundary

Boundaries come in two basic types: grouping boundaries and summary boundaries.

Grouping boundaries can be used to emphasize the relationships between topics and subtopics with an outline surrounding an area on a map with your choice of line type and an optional fill color.

Summary boundaries can be used to reduce a set of subtopics into a single summary topic and then allow this topic to grow again.

You can add boundaries within boundaries. The default boundary formatting is determined by the style settings. Boundaries are not shown in Outline view.

To create a boundary:

  1. Select the topic whose subtopics you want to group with the boundary.

  2. Click the Boundary button on the main toolbar and choose the boundary type.

To format a boundary:

Hint: You can use the buttons on the bottom formatting toolbar to set the boundary Line color or    Fill color. If you choose one of the Summary boundary types the fill color will be disabled.

To add a summary topic to a summary boundary:

Hint: You can expand the summary topic into a new topic tree by adding subtopics to it.

To remove a boundary:

Shortcut: to create a boundary of the same style as an existing boundary you can copy the boundary to a new topic tree.

Right-click on the boundary and use the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands.