Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Using WordArt

You can often create powerful visual impact using nothing more than text. Word and Office provide a special tool for creating text effects: WordArt.

Using WordArt, you can give your text added dimension, color, and style. Moreover, your WordArt creation is completely customizable after you've created it—you can even change the text you included.

WordArt tends to be most useful when you need to attract attention—for example, in retail advertising or brochures, on report cover pages, or for the banner at the top of a newsletter. WordArt tends to be less useful when you need highly refined imagery for a highly sophisticated and discriminating audience. Use WordArt for no more than a few words at a time so that you can achieve maximum ...