Can I control character overlap?

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

I want to create a title with the characters (letters) in different
colors and overlapping. I am able to get the overlap using the
character spacing, but each letter overlaps the previous one. I would
like to have the first overlap the second and so on.

Is there a way to do that?

 

[Terry Farrell]

Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character spacing.

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character spacing.

That's what I did, as I said. The result is that letter #2 overlays
letter #1 and I want it the other way around.

If my text string is ABCDE, I want the B to be behind the A, the C
behind the B, and so on. The result that I am getting is that the B is
on top of the A, the C is on top of the B, and so on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ideally, this would be done in a graphics app. To achieve it in Word, you're
going to have to use individual WordArt objects (or, at the very least,
multiple overlapping text boxes).

 

[Klaus Linke]

I want to create a title with the characters (letters) in different
colors and overlapping. I am able to get the overlap using the
character spacing, but each letter overlaps the previous one. I would
like to have the first overlap the second and so on.

Is there a way to do that?

Another way would be to use ADVANCE fields.

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

Another way would be to use ADVANCE fields.

....say,
{ advance \x2 }b{ advance \x0 }a

Klaus

 

[Terry Farrell]

Klaus has given you a solution for Word, but Suzanne is correct in that
perhaps you need something a little more elaborate than Word can so and a
graphics app would be better. You can save it as a jpeg and insert it into
Word.

Terry

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

Klaus has given you a solution for Word, but Suzanne is correct in that
perhaps you need something a little more elaborate than Word can so and a
graphics app would be better. You can save it as a jpeg and insert it into
Word.

Terry

I ended up using Visio. Thanks.

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

...say,
{ advance \x2 }b{ advance \x0 }a

Klaus

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about advance. Since I was
doing quite a few of these, that looked a bit too complicated.