Tech: Microsoft Word Help

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:57 AM

why would yu want to make it hard to read?

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:53 AM

The older versions of the Office Suite used to come with a program called Microsoft PhotoDraw. I actually had to install that old program on my computer even though they've discontinued it in the new versions because I had a few old files I needed that I couldn't open any other way. That program, ponderous as it is, will let you do all sorts of things to text, and integrate it into older versions of Word. I haven't tried using it in conjunction with the new version of Word.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:02 AM

Word Art does it for me, but GUEST,inept specifically said "... and I don't mean Wordart."

I don't think there's anything else

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:01 AM

There's always Photoshop Filter, Distort... options like wave, ripple, spherize, etc.

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Helen
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 08:33 AM

In WordArt, you can do that. You don't need to use the fancy custom designed WordArt with the fancy fonts. In Word 2000, you go to
Insert on the menu:

Insert > Picture > WordArt.

Then choose one of the WordArt options - with a fairly plain font if you don't want the fancy/special fonts. (You can change the font to the one you want in the drop down menu - see below.) Click OK.

Then click on the WordArt object to bring up the WordArt menu which has a little icon with "abc" in a wave shape and the label that pops up if you wave your cursor over it is "WordArt Shape". A drop down box appears with wave shapes etc and you choose the shape you want and then you can also "grab" the "handles" around the WordArt and change the shape e.g more bend, higher at the edges, and lower in the middle, etc.

If you want to change the font, click on Edit Text in the WordArt menu and then there is a font choice box in that window.

Is this what you wanted?

Helen

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 06:41 AM

It does let you put text into certain shapes, or rather OVER certain shapes, but you can't bend the text to fit the shape of the scroll or whatever.

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:54 PM

View, toolbars, drawing, autoshapes... lets you put text into certain shapes.

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:26 PM

If you can't figure it out, there is a free word processing program that will do some tricks like that. 3-D shapes, rainbow colors...etc.

TextShield Fusion

Subject: RE: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:29 PM

I think it depends on which version you have.

Subject: Tech: Microsoft Word Help
From: GUEST,inept
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 06:09 PM

I know there is a facility in Word to put text into a shape - I don't mean a shaped box or the like, I mean the actual letters go into a shape, such as a wave - and I don't mean Wordart. I have used this facility before, but can I remember what I did?

Can I hell. I have been trying every which way and now am throwing myself open to your good selves.

Anyone out there know the button to press?