Anyway to expand the nuber of drawings in word art gallery for Of.

[Maggi]

I find the number of drawings in the gallery of word art, very limited for
Office 2002. Is there an add on programme I could use. I do not use Publisher
only Excel and Word

 

[Keith Howell]

What is it you particlarly want a drawing of? Have you tried looking via
Google?

 

[Maggi]

I used the word drawing as that is where you find Word Art but it is just I
suppose the graphics that come in the Gallery that I want. They seem to have
stayed the same for a number of Office programs. Changing the font does not
help and I have tried changing colours etc with similar results.
I thought that maybe there was a software that would grow the number
available currently.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you using Insert | Picture | Clip Art...? And have you tried the "Clip
art on Office Online" link to find more?

 

[Maggi]

Yes I have tried Office Online and that just gives you instructions on how to
use word art (which I already know). Inserting picture/clip art is just
inserting pictures and a picture is not what I want.
I am creating pamphlets for work and I like to jazz up the word 'specials'
etc and have found that Word Art is limited and clip art pictures are not
necessary as I have pictures of my goods on file.
Maggi

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I'm confused, then, because there are no "drawings" in the WordArt
Gallery. If you're talking about WordArt shapes and effects, they are
practically limitless. You don't have to stick with the particular shape and
effect you start with. You can change the shapes, colors (line and fill),
and many other aspects of WordArt.

 

[Keith Howell]

Am guessing that what you really want is some fancy fonts? If so,type the
word fonts into Google and you will have an amazing choice

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Maggi,

The WordArt 'canned' sample gallery was chosen by Howard Cooperstein (now on the Powerpoint team <g>) ~1996 as a new feature set for
Office 97. While he commented in a recent interview that they certainly do look dated now, even in Word 2007 these have not been
changed, although Office 2007 can do cleaner text effects than the carryover WordArt galleries, there aren't any downloads available
to spruce up the defaults.

What you can do is choose one, modify the shadow settings, color fills, fonts, 3d effects, etc then store that as an Autotext entry
to be reused when you want something new, or create ones you like and store them together in a Word document then copy and paste
ones from there to new documents as you need them, so you'd only have to change the text for getting effects you like.

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Yes I have tried Office Online and that just gives you instructions on how to
use word art (which I already know). Inserting picture/clip art is just
inserting pictures and a picture is not what I want.
I am creating pamphlets for work and I like to jazz up the word 'specials'
etc and have found that Word Art is limited and clip art pictures are not
necessary as I have pictures of my goods on file.
Maggi >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

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