Add Text Art

Text Art is fancy text for short phrases, such as a title, a logo, or a banner. You can fill the letters with color, outline them, bend them into an arch or a wave, and add a shadow. Text Art is drawn as a shape, so it does not flow from box to box like regular text.

Insert Text Art

1. Click Insert > Text > Text Art. A gallery of 30 styles opens.
2. Click a style. JeffPub places Text Art on the page and opens the Edit Text Art Text dialog.
3. Type your words. Press Enter for a new line.
4. Choose a Font and Size, and check Bold or Italic if you like.
5. Click OK.

The style sets the font, the colors, and sometimes a shape. You can change any of them later.

Edit the words

Select the Text Art and press Enter or F2, or double-click it. You can also click Text Art Format > Text Art Text > Edit Text. If you change the size here, the frame grows or shrinks to match.

Change the look

Click the Text Art. The Text Art Format tab appears. See The Text Art tab.

• Style: pick another one from the Text Art Styles gallery. A new style replaces the font, colors, and shape you chose before.
• Color: use Shape Fill for the inside of the letters and Shape Outline for the edge.
• Shape: click Change Shape and choose Arch Up, Circle, Wave 1, Inflate, Slant Up, Chevron Up, Can Up, Fade Right, and others. Plain Text takes the shape away.
• Spacing: click Spacing and choose Very Tight, Tight, Normal, Loose, or Very Loose.
• Even Height: makes every letter the same height, so small letters grow to match capitals.
• Text Art Vertical Text: stacks the letters from top to bottom.
• Align Text: with more than one line, picks Left Align, Center, or Right Align. Letter Justify and Stretch Justify stretch short lines to the width of the longest.

Size and move

Drag a corner handle to stretch the Text Art. The letters stretch with the frame. Hold Shift while you drag to keep its proportions. See Select, move, resize, rotate, align, group, and layer.

Add a shadow or a 3-D look

On the Text Art Format tab, in the Effects group:

• Shadow Effects has Outer Shadow, Hard Shadow, Soft Glow Shadow, Shadow Down-Left, and Shadow Options….
• 3-D Effects has rotations such as Perspective Left and Off Axis, and bevels such as Circle and Convex.

Related

• The Text Art tab
• Shapes and lines
• Add and format text boxes