### Box command

Use the Box command to draw free-form boxes anywhere on your report. You can use these boxes to enclose field data or to create other graphic effects.

While you can create boxes via the Border and Colors command, the boxes you draw via the Box command differ from those in several important ways:

- Borders come in fixed sizes; whereas, boxes can be created in any size you need.
- A border can be used to enclose individual field values; whereas, a box placed around a field encloses all the values in the field.
- Borders can not stand alone (they must surround a field or a picture), while boxes can.
- Boxes do not increase the height of a text line (making for fewer lines per inch) whereas borders do.
- A border (field border) can not span multiple sections, while a box can.

Note: This command is also available as a button on the Standard toolbar.

###### Related topics

Format Box tab (Format Editor)

Adding and editing boxes

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