Word Art 2003
(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:
Word Art 2010
You can use WordArt to add special text effects to your document. For example, you can stretch a title, skew text, make text fit a preset shape, or apply a gradient fill. This WordArt becomes an object that you can move or position in your document to add decoration or emphasis. You can modify or add to the text in an existing WordArt object whenever you want.
On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt style that you want.
Example of the Text group on the Insert tab in Excel 2010.
Enter your text.
Notes
If you have a chart in your Office 2010 document, you can replace the chart title with WordArt to give the title additional emphasis.
Select the text that you want to convert to WordArt.
On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt that you want.
Which program are you using?
When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text.
Select the WordArt text that you want to remove the WordArt style from.
Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click the More button, and then click Clear WordArt.
Tip To remove the WordArt style from part of your text, select the text that you want to remove the WordArt style from, and then follow the steps above.
When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text.
Select the WordArt text that you want to remove the WordArt style from.
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting
Tip To remove the WordArt style from part of your text, select the text that you want to remove the WordArt style from, and then follow the steps above.
When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text.
Select the WordArt text that you want to remove the WordArt style from.
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear Formatting.
Tip To remove the WordArt style from part of your text, select the text that you want to remove the WordArt style from, and then follow the steps above.
Select the WordArt that you want to remove, and then press DELETE.
Experiment with different Word Art, fonts and effects to see what works best !!