Guide To Microsoft Word Art
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There are more ways of enhancing Microsoft Word documents than simply making the text bold, italic or underlined. Making an impact is the keyword when creating any document, whether it be a simple letter or a more complex publication. WordArt can help you achieve that impact with the minimum of fuss and effort. So take this guided tour of WordArt and see how quickly your document creation improves.
By Design
To start working with WordArt open a new word document and then click the Drawing icon on the main toolbar. The first thing you notice is that a new toolbar set has appeared at the bottom of the Word document window. This toolbar has a host of interesting icons, but the one we are most interested in is the one marked ‘A’. (Fig 1)
Fig 1: The Drawing Toolbar
Click on the 'A' icon now and the following WordArt Gallery window will appear. (Fig 2).
Fig 2: The WordArt Gallery
Text Options to Die For
You will notice that you have rather a large choice of WordArt options. Double click on any one of the options and a new Edit Text window will appear (Fig 3).
Fig 3: Edit WordArt Text window
Type the text you want to add to your document in the text dialogue box. As you can see you can add embellishments like Bold or Italic simply by clicking the relevant button at the top of the window. At the same time you can also make changes to the Font type and size by clicking the relevant font and/or size selection arrows.
Creative Masterpiece
After typing in your text and making any adjustment for font type and/or size simply click the OK button and the text you typed into the WordArt text dialogue box will instantly be inserted into your Microsoft Word document. (Fig 4).
Fig 4: The finished WordArt
It really is that simple. So now there is no excuse not to liven up your word documents and make then stand out from the crowd. And if you are not satisfied with having horizontal text, why not change it to vertical (Fig 5).
Fig 5: Vertically Lined Text
There really is no excuse for boring run of the mill documents. WordArt will spruce things up and give that boring text document a new lease of life.