Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Step by Step

Creating WordArt

When you want a fancy text banner that you can’t seem to create with font attributes, you can use WordArt to create special effects for your text. You can make WordArt text appear curved, outlined, multicolored, shadowed, or three-dimensional.

To create a WordArt object using existing text in your document, you select the text, click the Insert WordArt button on the Drawing toolbar, click a style in the WordArt Gallery dialog box, and then click OK. The Edit WordArt Text dialog box appears with your text selection highlighted so that you can add further formatting to the text. Clicking OK inserts the WordArt object in the document at the insertion point.

Selecting a WordArt object displays the WordArt toolbar, which you can use ...