Word Art

Quick reference

• 00:05 All right, Word Art is so fun to work with, but keep in mind,
• 00:08 you can almost have too much of a good thing sometimes.
• 00:11 Okay, rule number one, go ahead and select the text you want to work with.
• 00:15 And this is on the Insert ribbon and it's way over here on the right hand side.
• 00:19 There's a section called Text, and
• 00:21 right up here we have a little letter A kind of tipped on one of its legs, so
• 00:24 I'm going to go ahead and click that, and here's our first gallery.
• 00:27 I'm going to choose this particular design, And right away my drawing tools came
• 00:32 up and it's allowing me to reformat this word art in any way I want.
• 00:36 I can change the outside box, maybe fill it with a color, that's a little too much,
• 00:41 I'm gonna Ctrl + Z and undo that.
• 00:43 Again, make sure you're selected on the word art, so
• 00:47 I can go to quick styles, and I can change the print if I want to change that.
• 00:52 I can change the Color of the internal text maybe to green, and
• 00:57 I can change the outside edge to whatever I want.
• 01:00 And you can also do this, you can put Shadows on here,
• 01:03 here's where you have to go by the rule.
• 01:05 Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean you should do it.
• 01:09 Sometimes, like I said, too much would be good thing.
• 01:13 It's interesting 'cause you can even,
• 01:15 let me see if I can select this whole thing again, you can even transform it.
• 01:19 Yeah, I can go back to my drawing tools hit this drop-down go to transform,
• 01:24 I can actually bend it and bend it.
• 01:27 Anyway, I would never do that on a flyer but
• 01:30 it's kind of fun to experiment and see everything that can be done.
• 01:35 How about a professional reason to use it?
• 01:37 I'm going to scroll down to another exercise right down here.
• 01:40 Back in the days of paper invoices,
• 01:42 and paper everything we often had PAID IN FULL stampers on our desks.
• 01:46 You grab it and just stamp Paid In Full, how do you do that electronically?
• 01:50 Well, with WordArt, okay, so what I have is some text right here, paid in full.
• 01:55 And I'm just going to try to make it look just like this.
• 01:58 I actually do this on some of my invoices, so I've got paid in full already selected.
• 02:02 I'm going to go to the Insert ribbon way over here to my little tiny A that's
• 02:06 tipped sideways, and I think I'll choose this font right here.
• 02:10 And that looks pretty good, but I do have my drawing tools.
• 02:13 And so I'm going to come over here I have Shape Outlines and Shape Fills and
• 02:17 Shape Effects, Quick Styles.
• 02:19 If I wanna change any of that, I just want to make this look a little better.
• 02:24 So I think I will go with the rounded one that I had earlier.
• 02:27 And I do want this to be red, so I'm gonna do the red here and a red here.
• 02:33 To see what can happen you just keep going and
• 02:36 going until you decide you like it and it looks the way you want.
• 02:39 You can align the text, Alt Text would be simply putting the names if this
• 02:44 goes on the Internet, you've named it Paid in Full.
• 02:47 So that name would be attached to be while it's online,
• 02:50 the only placed you'd ever see that is online, that's what the Alt Text means.
• 02:54 Let me click back on this, get my Drawing Tools, ribbons back, I can Position it,
• 02:58 I can Wrap Text, bring it forward, bring it backward.
• 03:01 Maybe I've got another Image that I wanna put it in front of or behind.
• 03:06 Check out this, I can even rotate this and flip it vertical or horizontal or
• 03:10 whatever you want, so anyway, have fun with that, keep it professional, and
• 03:14 just remember just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean you should, okay, thanks.

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