How to Format Text with Word Art

In a previous lesson, we added some text to an AutoShape. The text we added was just plain text, which was then formatted with a font of our chosing. Another option is to use Word Art. We'll explore that in this lesson.

Examples of Word Art are these:

To insert some Word Art of your own, do the following:

As you can see, there are lots of different styles to choose from. Select a style and click it with your left mouse button. Click the OK button and you'll get another dialogue box popping up. This one is where you type in your text, and change the font and font size.

Click the OK button when you've typed your text, and your Word Art will appear on the page. Another thing that appears is the Word Art toolbar:

Click each of the options on the toolbar and see what it does to your Word Art. You can do things like change the letter spacing, add a different fill colour, and rotate the text. You can always click Edit > Undo to go back to your original letters.

In the next part of the lesson, we'll see how to format some Word Art, rotate it and add a touch of 3D.

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