Word Help?

[wolfs_daugher]

i am whole and complete unto myself. i share love freely given and freely received.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way, in Word, to color these words like a rainbow? I am using the font Edda, and Bold. I don't know how to make colors happen.

Sparrow

Comments

[maiagirl]

You can go to format in the tool bar and click on fonts. There is a font color option, if you want to color each letter sepretely. You can even click on "more colors" and get a color wheel that allows you to adjust the shading of each letter. I don't think this is what you had in mind, but it's all I can come up with.

[wolfs_daugher]

The only color options I can find are to fill the Background. Which is kind of the opposite of what I want.

Frustrating.
Sparrow

[wolfs_daugher]

Found it!!!!

DID IT!!!

thank you!
Sparrow

[lwood]

If what you instead wanted was a smooth gradient, I don't know that you can do that in Word; it's not really the right tool for fine colorwork.

I can make you a PDF with...uh, something, gods know I have enough of that kind of thing knocking around that can do the job.

Do you want it printed longways or widthways on an ordinary piece of paper? Did you want it all caps, or with both upper and lower case?

[lwood]

Is this about what you want? Photoshop does a lovely gradient if you ask nicely:

[bergtagen]

That's lovely, and you are a sweetie.

[lwood]

*grin* Thank you, I do my best.

If, however, this was supposed to be Sparrow's exercise in computer literacy, I have instead failed. It didn't look like one, though.

-- Lorrie

[wolfs_daugher]

It's not an exercise in computer literacy. It's an exercise in fulfilling my own Needs, which is even worse.

*sigh* thank you. It's so lovely I want to weep.

Sparrow

[shipofools999]

Microsoft Word and PowerPoint come with this thing called Word Art. You can find it on the Drawing toolbar.

It is for creating text objects and doing things to them, like colors, 3D, wrapping them in circles, etc. It is very easy to use. One of the main options is a rainbow colored text form.

If you need help with finding WordArt or using it, let me know. I am pretty sure once you find it, it should be easy enough to play with.

[wolfs_daugher]

I don't haver PowerPoint, Photoshop or any of those nifty sorts of things. I have never seen them at all, either.

Word has a Drawing Toolbar? Can you tell me where it is, I am hunting for it, but do not find it. (Of course it may be under my nose and I simply don't know what I am looking at...)

thanks
Sparrow

[wolfs_daugher]

it was under my nose. I finally found it.

It WORKED!!! This is just one more Treasure Box that I thank you for!

*grins*
Sparrow
Thank you

[wolfs_daugher]

Uh, let me rephrase that. I don't have Word Art, as far as I can tell. But the Drawing Icon, which I finally found, let me use the Fonts tools to color individual letters.

Sparrow

Use Word Art

[hilarypoet]

It's in the drawing menu

Re: Use Word Art

[wolfs_daugher]

I have done a Search in the Help box for Word Art and Drawing both and have come up with nothing. Can you tell me where to find a "Drawing Menu"?

Sparrow

Re: Use Word Art

[wolfs_daugher]

I don't have Word Art apparently. But I finally found the Drawing icon (no toolbar, just an icon) and it let me use the Font tools to color the letters.

thanks!

Sparrow

Re: Use Word Art

[lwood]

Hey, thanks, Hilary--I had no idea this was in there!

Sparrow, here are directions appropriate to your version of Word:

Here is how to find the Drawing Toolbar, which has Word Art:

1. Open Word.
2. Go to the View menu. It is the third from the left: File, Edit, View.
3. Select this. The View menu will have several things on it. At the bottom is a double-down pointing arrow that you can click on to make the menu reveal all its goodies.
4. One of those goodies is the "Toolbars" menu, which will pop a side menu out to the right. This little sidecar describes which toolbars you may display.
5. One of these is the "Drawing" toolbar. Select this.