(You must have Microsoft Word on your computer to use this Tutorial.)
To use Word Art, go to
your Standard Toolbar at the top of the page, and click on :
Insert > Picture > Word Art The following
Word Art Gallery will open up:
Click on the style you
like, and when the options panel opens, change the words,
"Your Text Here" to whatever you would like your Word Art to say.
Click O.K., and you will be able to drag and
place your Word Art anywhere on the page you would like !!
The Word Art shown
below came with a default font of ARIAL, 36 pt.
By double clicking it, we can change the
font to any other font and size available on our list in the options panel.
We changed it to a font named ALGERIAN, and made it much larger:
We can also change color and effects by formatting the Word Art. To do this, we Right-Click on the Word Art and this panel appears:
After we click on the button named, "Format Word Art", this panel will appear:
We now Click on the arrow next to the Color Box, and then click on FILL EFFECTS to get here:
This opens up all the options for changing the look of our Word Art. We can change colors to two-colors, use preset color options, change textures, patterns, and more. As an example, I have changed our Word Art from the brown, crumpled paper effect to what appears below:
Experiment with different Word Art, fonts and effects to see what works best !!