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Which app, Photo, Designer, Publisher?

In Photo and Designer you could use the Pen tool and draw a stroke on the 2 sides of the square. Using Pen Pressure sort of gets you there, but to me it doesn't look right.

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Here's what I was referring to. Stroke with no fill on 2 sides of a square.

 

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6 minutes ago, Ammar said:

what if the square had two rounded corners ? using the pen tool won't work

Yes it would. Just have Smooth nodes or corners for the two. How about using the Corner Tool to round those corners, or just making them smooth when using the Pen tool.

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Are you wanting something more like a Drop Shadow effect? I can't find a quick, one-click method for putting a border on just two sides.

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1 hour ago, Ammar said:

Is it possible to add a border for example on a square but not for all 2 sides maybe just last two is that possible ?

No, stroke gets always assigned to the entire shape. – Workaround with a masking object:

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I had a brain block on this. Didn't occur to me to mask.. Duh  🤦‍♂️

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1 hour ago, Ammar said:

what if the square had two rounded corners ? using the pen tool won't work

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If you just want a stroked shape (as a border or the like), remove fill (no fill) and apply a stroke size/color instead etc.

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Maybe I have misunderstood what is wanted but can't you just create a pair of rectangles, position & size them on the edges where you want the borders, give them a fill but no stroke, & add them to get a single L-shared object. If you need curves on one or more corners, use rounded rectangles instead of straight ones with only the desired edges set to rounded (or in AD use the Corner Tool for that).

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Another way would be to add a stroke to the outside of the rectangle, expand the stroke and then just move / edit the nodes. The simplest would be to just duplicate, make the one at the back black, Increase its size to create the desired border width, then just drag in left and bottom sides:

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