Boundaries   

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Boundaries come in two basic types:

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 theme settings. Boundaries are not shown in Outline View.

 

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Create a boundary

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

  2. On the Home or Insert tab, in the Objects group, click the Boundary arrow, and then click the boundary type.

 Add a summary topic to a boundary

  1. Select the boundary (a blue box shows it is selected).

  2. Do one of the following:

    On the Home tab, in the Add topics group, click Callout. Or On the boundary's blue frame, click the Add Topic tab. Or Right-click the boundary and click Insert Summary Topic.

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

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Format a boundary

When you select a boundary, a blue box appears to show that it is selected. Then you can change the boundary's formatting.

Format a boundary

  1. Select the boundary.

  2. On the Format tab, use the Object Format group commands to change the Fill Color, Line Color, and Line type.

More formatting options

  1.  Do one of the following:

    Right-click the boundary, and then click Format Boundary. Or Select the boundary. On the Home or Insert tab, click the Boundary arrow, then click Format Boundary. Or Double-click the boundary.

  1. Choose the desired attributes for the boundary.

  2. Click Map Theme if you wish to save all the boundary's format settings as the default formatting for boundaries on this map, or reset the boundary to the default formatting from the map's theme.

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Copy or remove a boundary

Copy a boundary

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

  Remove a boundary

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