Reply To: New to indesign..need to put a border around text..help!

I bet that's not what the OP had in mind, and was actually hoping for a “Border Around Any Text” tool. There is a commercial plug-in for that; it's not standard built-in into ID.

Apart from bordering an entire text frame, you can also insert a small table into your text and use that to get borders around entire paragraphs. Anything smaller than that — say, a border around a single word or a single character — will need more than a passing knowledge of using Anchored Objects.