Word Art

Quick reference

• 00:04 Word Art is something that has been with Microsoft Word for decades.
• 00:09 But if you are a student of graphic design,
• 00:12 you are familiar with the term typography.
• 00:15 The style or appearance of text, also refers to the art,
• 00:18 word art of working with text.
• 00:21 As the rule goes, we always select the text we want to work with.
• 00:25 And notice my Menu bar pops up and I already have Text Effects and Typography.
• 00:30 But let me tell you something, it's not always there.
• 00:33 It kind of depends on what else has been going on with your document.
• 00:36 So in this case, it is there so I can go ahead and click this.
• 00:40 I have a gallery up on top and then options down below.
• 00:43 Well, let's go and find this somewhere else, okay?
• 00:46 Again, I'm clicked on my text, I'll go to the Insert ribbon,
• 00:51 on the far right hand side is a Text area, and the middle button says Word Art.
• 00:56 When I activate that, there's the gallery, the same examples.
• 00:59 I'll go ahead and choose one of these and
• 01:02 instantly I have a brand new ribbon Shape Format.
• 01:05 Well now it's just a matter of digging around in here, experimenting with these,
• 01:09 applying these, and seeing which ones you like.
• 01:12 I'm going to stay right here in the center where it says Word Art Styles.
• 01:16 We do have quick styles, that is the gallery I already chose.
• 01:20 And then we go into detail.
• 01:22 Here we could color the fill color inside the text.
• 01:25 The next one is the border color, Text Outline.
• 01:30 The next one is the text effects.
• 01:33 So if I want to apply a shadow to this, to add depth,
• 01:37 we can apply a reflection to this, make it glow.
• 01:42 Make a bevel effect, add a 3D rotation to this.
• 01:46 Although even though I'm floating around, I can't really see anything changing.
• 01:50 So I'm going to push pause just for a second and reset.
• 01:53 Click out of this, Ctrl Z, go back to my original text.
• 01:58 Insert Word Art, choose a Word Art.
• 02:02 I'm going to go right back to my Text Effects, and
• 02:05 then go straight to Transform, see if it will bend.
• 02:09 There it is. I just had to click it by mistake.
• 02:12 I did want to show you one other thing up there, when I'm trying to apply things and
• 02:16 it's covering up all my text.
• 02:17 You can float your mouse on the dot, dot, dot at the bottom of these menus and
• 02:21 move them out of your way so you can actually see everything.
• 02:24 And then we have a scroll bar within.
• 02:26 Let's try the bevel this time.
• 02:27 I want to put a bevel on here.
• 02:29 Can't really see what's happening, grab those dot,
• 02:32 dot, dots, move it up out of the way, use a scroll bar, and then apply a bevel.
• 02:37 Great, let's move on.
• 02:37 Let's show you a professional way to use this.
• 02:40 Often in the old days we had these stampers.
• 02:42 So, in the old days we would stamp an invoice paid in full.
• 02:47 Well, you can do that electronically with Word Art.
• 02:49 So, I already placed some text down here, Paid in Full.
• 02:52 The typography does show up on my screen, so I'll go ahead and choose a red one.
• 02:57 Let me select this again, Text Effects.
• 03:00 Notice when I use the typography on the mini bar,
• 03:02 I didn't get my Shape Format ribbon.
• 03:04 I find that very interesting.
• 03:06 So, you'll figure out which way works for you if you want all the options or not.
• 03:10 Okay, in this case, I do want a larger one.
• 03:14 Okay, I want my outline to be a bright red, and I want the fill color.
• 03:19 Let's see, I want a little glow on this one.
• 03:23 And then I want the font to be quite larger.
• 03:26 So I can do that on my keyboard or I can come up here and I can just choose 36.
• 03:31 In my opinion, the Insert and the Word Art, and
• 03:34 then have the Shape Format just offer me all the tools is kind of cool, because I
• 03:38 think I have more options using the Shape Format than I do on the right click.
• 03:43 Regardless, how you do it, there is a professional use for this.
• 03:46 There is a fun use for this on flyers and it all depends on what you need.
• 03:52 But the important thing is get in there and practice,
• 03:54 you'll be amazed at what you can find out.
• 03:56 Also, you can go online and look up the word typography and
• 04:00 see some very cool examples of designs online.
• 04:03 Have fun with it.

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