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7 hiệu ứng cho chữ trong Microsoft Word

GLASS

7 Best Text Effects

in Microsoft Word

Václav Krejčí

GLASS

Copyright © 2013 by Vaclav Krejci

All rights reserved

First edition, September 2013

All trademarks and copyrighted items mentioned and shown in this book are the property of their respective owners

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other organization, specifically Microsoft Corporation I have no connection with this company – yet

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Introduction

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it means a lot to me It gives me the energy to continue

Thank you.

8 Table of content

Table Of Content

What you need to know (and have) 10

Why Microsoft Word? 11

Start with a blank document 14

Glass text effect 16

Twirls & Curls text effect 20

Color tails text effect 24

Dance! text effect 28

Freeze text effect 34

Vegas text effect 40

Stickers text effect 48

When everything goes wrong 56

Inspirational websites 62

Tutorials inspiration 64

This is (not) the end 68

Tutorials!

9 Introduction

During my high school studies back in 2003, I had a great side job I

was teaching senior citizens computer science at a local university

Despite their age, they were all novice users The plan was to teach

them everything about computers The first lesson was a nightmare

Everyone was bored and confused – does anyone really think one

needs to know the binary system in order to work with a computer?

I had to completely revise the approach Since I was studying

graphic design by myself, I came up with a simple but nice looking

series of documents to be recreated – each one with a slightly

dif-ferent graphical style and taking less than one hour to complete

Each one was created using nothing more than Microsoft Word

I was shocked They all knew very little about computers but, with

proper guidance, my “students” were able to create stunning

docu-ments while having fun

They were creating birthday party invitations for their dren, calendars for their families, labels for Christmas presents and a great deal more

grandchil-Ten years later, everything fitted together My English is better, I have a strong graphic design background, the current version of Microsoft Word contains all the necessary functions for advanced graphical effects, and iBooks Author allows me to publish this book for the iPad on my own and without the need for a real publisher When working on the tutorials, bear in mind that miracles do not happen overnight While all the tutorials can be finished in a short time, you will need much more time to master them Remember that

it is much easier to learn when you have fun – as my students found However, despite the “class party” sample document from my class (sample at the bottom), I have no evidence that they were actually having any parties At least not with me!

Introduction

10 What you need to know (and have)

Quick Access Toolbar - adjust it to your needs

TextBox

All the tutorials in this book are created for Microsoft Word 2013

(sometimes referred to as version 15) and Office 365 Most tutorials

can also be completed using the previous versions (2010, 2007 or

2003), but it will take more time and effort

An internet connection can be handy if you want to look for

inspira-tion, and of course, if you want to share your creations with your

friends, but it is not required You also do not need anything other

than what you already have installed on your computer Only fonts

which come with Windows and Office are used, and there is no need

for any other plugin or third-party software

This all means that you can try the tutorials on the work computer

(when nobody is looking), or in school (and pretend that you are

learning – which you are) Also, you can create the best looking

doc-ument during a job interview and amaze the employer – of course,

only if you have not already done so with your great looking résumé

You need to have at least a basic computer and Microsoft Word skills

to successfully finish all the tutorials That means that you should

know how to create a new document, how to write, and how to set

different formats like font color, size or paragraph justification You

should know how to insert special symbols, draw basic shapes and

how to change the outline and fill Finally, you should know how to

save your document, open it and print it or send it via e-mail You

really do not need much more than that – still, the book is not

in-tended for someone who encounters Word for the first time If this

is your situation, then do not worry – there are plenty of books and

online tutorials covering the basics, and you can learn them in few

days, if not hours

What you need to know (and have)

11 Why Microsoft Word?

Do not hide the ribbon, you will need it!

Selection Pane = quick and easy way to select objects; to display

it, select: Home » Select » Selection Pane

Zoom-in on a view for better precision

Format Shape Pane - the

best way to control the

visual appearance

Microsoft Word is definitely not the best application in the world Like anything else, it has its pros and cons There are three reasons why I’ve chosen Word for the tutorials Firstly – it is widely recog-nized Millions of users already have this software installed, so I can reach a wide user base Secondly – most of the users already have some basic knowledge of this application This is great because I can skip the boring parts and focus on the cool stuff instead And the third reason – it evolves and improves Most of the tutorials would not have been possible to finish using previous versions, and

I can imagine that the next version will again bring newer and more useful functions

It is by no means a professional application for print design, but the techniques and workflow are pretty similar, and the knowledge described in this book can be reused in other applications as well This is a very important and relevant detail: This book is an attempt

to teach you how to work with Microsoft Word Instead, it teaches you how to create text effects using Microsoft Word You can reuse the gained experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Ink-scape, or any other application When you know the principles, the tool is not that important

Since my intention is to explain graphic design to everyday users using software they are already familiar with, it also means that in the next version of this book, I may switch to a different applica-tion If it would make more sense, I may be using Pages (application for iPads and Mac computers), Google Docs or maybe even some free online tools I’m not tied to Microsoft Word, but from all the research I’ve done, it looks like the best option for now

Why Microsoft Word?

GLASS

T u t o r i a l s

13 Tutorials

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Every tutorial in this book starts with the same first step: Start with

a blank document, create Text Box with no fill and no outline, and

type word X, with font Y, sized Z pt Usually center aligned.

If you are not sure how to perform this task, keep reading wise, feel free to jump right to the tutorials section It is just two pages ahead!

Other-Start with a blank document

I’m pretty sure you know how to create a new document It is as

easy as clicking the File › New › Blank Document (1), or simply

pressing the (Ctrl) + (N) shortcut The more important question

is – why use a new document for every tutorial?

It is because everything can go wrong, and if it does, you do not

want to lose more than you need to If you want to use a new header

for your 50-page document, create the header in a separate

docu-ment, and if you are satisfied with the result, copy and paste it into

the big document Play it safe

There are two ways to insert a new text box, both on the ribbon

In-sert The first option is under Shapes › Basic Shapes › Text Box (2),

and right after selecting the tool, you can use your mouse to draw

a shape of the text box the same way you draw a rectangle This will

create an empty text box without any text, and it is the preferred

way to create a text box

The second way to create a text box is in the Text Box (3) dropdown

menu It contains many pre-defined styles They are great if you

need a nice looking quote and you have little time Obviously, this

will not be our case – we want to start from scratch, and spend some

time creating great things We will certainly not be satisfied with

anything average

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On the Home ribbon, choose the correct font (4) and the correct size (5) Most text effects are more visible in the bigger sizes, and that is why we are using a text size of at least 72 pt in all the tutori-als To use a bigger size than 72 pt, click in the size edit box and type the value on your keyboard (for example 150 pt) It is good to know that resizing the text box (6) does not change the text size Sometimes, you also want to change the font color (7), and maybe have the text center aligned (8)

The last step before jumping to the real tutorials is to get rid of the default black outline and white fill To do so, keep the text box selected and on the Format ribbon (9), click the Shape Fill (10) dropdown and select No Fill, and click the Shape Outline and select

No Outline (11)

With those settings, the text box is now invisible, and all we can see

is the text inside Without it, locating the empty invisible text box would be quite hard (not impossible, but hard)

A final note to bear in mind – there is a difference between ing with the text box itself or with the content When the selection box is showed as a dotted line (12), you are working with the text – pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard will move the text cursor When you click on the text box outline and it becomes a solid line (13), you are working with the text box itself Pressing the arrows keys on the keyboard will move the text box around the document

work-GLASS

Estimated Completion Time: 5 Minutes

Difficulty: 

Learn how to:

• Adjust font properties

• Fake breaking text into pieces

• Create custom shapes

Glass text effect

GLASS

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potato-shaped rock

triangles

When you break objects, they fall into

piec-es Not a big surprise, right? It is the same

for glass as for any other material But glass

is a little bit special – it creates a specific

pattern and it is also very easy to break The

chances are that you have already broken

some glass, or maybe a window, and you

have also seen the pattern That is

impor-tant because our brain can then create a

connection between this text effect and

something what we’ve seen in the past

The more we know how this shattered glass

looks in the real-world, the less we need to

care about the preciseness and details

In Word, it is not possible to break objects into pieces Of course, two triangles can form

a rectangle, but letters are complex shapes and those cannot be broken apart The good news is that our brain can be easily fooled and we can fake this effect Otherwise, this tutorial would not make any sense

The most important thing before we start is

to study the “breakage pattern” When you hit the window with the rock (1) (please,

do not try it just because you want to see the pattern), the object often goes through and creates a hole in the surface (2) I’ve cheated a little bit and placed this spot in-side the letter “A”, where the hole already

is – a small detail, but it can save some time and effort

From this point, the forces spread evenly in every direction (3), causing the object to break into triangles (4) and small pieces of text to separate and fly away from the cen-ter (5) The window in the real-world was probably not the best example since the glass is framed, and that causes the edges

to stay within this frame It is better to imagine a glass plate lying on the floor and being hit with a brick

In any case, you should know enough to start creating this text effect without the need for a riot On the other hand, maybe the most apt usage of this effect could be on

a rebellious poster?

17 Glass text effect

Start with a blank document, create a Text Box with no fill and no

outline and write the headline with a big black-colored font In our

case, it is the word GLASS and the font is Franklin Gothic Medium

sized 110 pt (1)

If you paid attention to the previous page, you should already know

that after hitting our glass text with the imaginary rock, everything

will break and move That is an important detail – nothing will stay

in place For that reason, we will set different positions for each

letter That will help to break the evenness and add some chaos and

randomness

To do so, select any letter, open the font dialog ((Ctrl) + (D),

or click button 2), select Advanced Tab and set Position to either

Lowered or Raised (3) Values between 3–5 pt seem to be working

just fine, but it may vary for different sizes Repeat the process for

every character in the string The helper line on the right (4) shows

that you do not have to position every single character Some can

stay in the original position as well (like the “G” and the first “S”)

The next step is to break the text into triangle parts Instead of

breaking anything, we will add white triangles over the text to fake

the broken parts For that, we will use an Isosceles Triangle shape

(5) from Insert › Shapes There is a small downside to this method

– once you resize the triangle to a very narrow shape, the rotation

point (6) disappears, and there is no easy way to rotate it again

For this reason, it is better to rotate the triangle first, and resize it

afterwards You can still rotate the shape at any time by right

click-ing and selectclick-ing the More Layout Options dialog, but I’ve found

it easier to temporarily resize the triangle until the rotation point

appears and make it narrow later on In the end, there are less than

10 triangles anyway By the way – in the preview image on the right,

all of the triangles have a blue color so you can see them clearly

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If you have not done so already, change the fill color for all triangles

to white (7) and change the outline to No Outline To select multiple

triangles, click with the (Ctrl) key pressed With all those gles, we have hidden a lot of text beneath But those pieces should not just disappear, so we will re-create them It looks nice when the floating fragments appear exactly the same – as if they were ripped off from the text – but bear in mind that they do not always have to

trian-be perfect We just have to follow the forces going from the center of the text (letter “A”) and place the tiny fractions accordingly

This time we will use the Freeform shape (8) from Insert › Shapes

There are two ways of drawing the shape with this tool – pressing and holding the mouse to draw freehand, or single clicking to cre-ate straight lines The second option is definitely easier to handle – after all, most of the fragments are distorted triangles and rect-angles To create a shape, click with the mouse to create individual points (9), (10), (11), which will be connected with lines To close the shape (so it can have fill), move the mouse close to the first point until the ghost shape is filled (12) Clicking this first point again will close the shape If you do not need a closed shape, you can stop creating the shape by pressing the (Esc) or (Enter) key.You can see that even for the curved “S” letter (13), the fragment

is still a triangle and it looks nice While all the fragments are again shown in a blue color, you can start with black fill from the beginning

Do not try to overdo the effect Remember that we want to create a broken/shattered glass effect in the shortest amount of time with very little effort That should be our biggest advantage Our sample has about 10 fragments If we add another 10, it will take longer to create, but the effect will not be twice as good If we add another 20 fragments, the result may even be worse You know it already – less

is more

Estimated Completion Time: 10 Minutes

Difficulty: 

Learn how to:

• Insert special characters

• Quickly copy an object

• Create a faded ink effect

Twirls & Curls text effect

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Creating calligraphic lettering in the

real-world requires a pen, some ink, a steady

hand and about 10,000 hours of training

(Google the 10,000 hours rule) It is much

easier with the help of a computer, but it

would still take an entire book to describe,

and endless hours to practice But we only

have a few minutes, and since we are

assum-ing that we have no art skills, the only way

to proceed is to reuse something already

created by someone else

With every new version of Windows and

Of-fice, there are more and more

(nice-look-ing) fonts that are pre-installed One of

them is called Gabriola (since Office 2010

/ Windows 7), which is exactly what we are

looking for

Before we move on, let’s briefly talk about

fonts I will try not to go into details here

The font file contains a graphical

represen-tation for each defined character When you

press the (A) key on the keyboard, the

sys-tem looks into the currently selected font,

and if the “A” character exists, it is drawn

On the other hand, if the character is not

in the font file, you will get the “missing

character” symbol instead (which is often a

rectangle , or crossed rectangle )

While entering the characters from the board is the fastest way to type, there is a limitation to the maximum number of pos-sible characters You only have about 100 keys, while fonts often contain hundreds or thousands of characters The way to enter those is to use keyboard shortcuts, or Sym- bol dialog (1) You can see that the design-

key-er of the Gabriola font has already included some swirly and curly symbols at the end of the font (2) Hooray!

With this information in mind, you can cancel your calligraphic lessons and create stunning typography effects in just a few minutes But do not tell anybody how easy

it was! And do not forget to send the card to the author of the font, who is (ac-cording to the website) John Hudson Wiki-pedia also says that Gabriola is the name of

post-an Islpost-and

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1 /2Start with a blank document, create a Text Box with no fill and no

outline, and type the first word (Twirls) with the font Gabriola,

sized 90 pt, black color and center justification ((Ctrl) + (E)) In

our sample document, we have three lines of text (Twirls & Curls)

We can surely use paragraph justification and line spacing to

posi-tion every word precisely, but I’ve found it easier (and much faster)

to have a separate text box for each word This also allows for better

control of the layout

The best way to create three text boxes is to start with the first

al-ready created and drag its border with the mouse with the (Ctrl)

key pressed You can see that the mouse cursor changes to show

that a copy will be created (1) This little trick is much faster than

using the copy/paste shortcuts ((Ctrl) + (C) and (Ctrl) + (V))

Also, if you press the (Shift) key while dragging with (Ctrl) key,

the new object will be horizontally or vertically aligned with the

original shape

The next step is to add the special symbols using the Insert ›

Sym-bol › More SymSym-bols dialog However, in this dialog, the previews

are very small and often cropped For this reason, it is better to

create another helper text box, where we add all symbols (2) in a

bigger size (36 pt) This will help us decide which symbols we want

to use It also shows that every second symbol is just a flipped

ver-sion of the previous symbol Still, we have enough to choose from

The next few steps are very similar Copy one of the already created

text boxes (since we do not want to set outline and fill colors again

and again), and paste one of the symbols Set the size of the symbol

to be big enough (about 90 pt), and rotate and move the text box

(3) It is up to you if you want the symbols to overlap the text or

not To stay consistent, keep the font size for all symbols the same

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er That is not true – you have to know when to stop The best way to

do so is to imagine an area which we want to “fill” with the shapes

In our example, the area is a simple rectangle (4), but it can be a circle, ellipse, or maybe even a heart symbol – it is up to you Just bear in mind that the curly symbols are pretty complicated, which means that you do not need to use a lot of them In our example, there are only five being used

To spice up this effect a little bit, we will use a simple technique to add a “faded ink” effect Select the Scribble (5) shape from the In- sert › Shapes menu and start doodling over the text like crazy (6) I’m not joking, create a big crazy mess, and repeat it three times so you will have three shapes For illustration purposes, those three shapes are shown on the preview image, on the left, in different colors – green, blue and purple It is just to see them better

Right click on any shape and select Format Shape to show the right

format pane Here, we have to set three things We want the doodles

to be only over the text, therefore, the color will be the color of the background, that is white (7) We also want the overlays to be thick-

er, so we set the Width to 20 pt (8) Finally, we want this effect to

be more subtle This means that we set the Transparency somewhere

between 70–90% (9) To make it more random, we can set a ent transparency (and maybe even width) for every shape

differ-The enlarged preview on the left (10) shows the effect nicely (as well as the preview on the first page) The text, together with the curly symbols, no longer only has a solid black color – it also has some random shades of gray as if the ink was faded Well, not re-ally like in the real-world, but remember that it took us less than 10 minutes to create With real tools, the ink would not even be dry!

Estimated Completion Time: 10 Minutes

Difficulty: 

Learn how to:

• Create a 3D extruded text

• Adjust lighting for the flat coloring

• Easily select the right colors

Color tails text effect

We have three possible ways to display a 3D

object in Microsoft Word The first option

– Perspective view (1) – mimics the

real-world view As the object moves away from

the observer (you), it gets smaller That is

why on the first cube, the back side (2) is

smaller than the front side (3) How much

smaller it gets is defined by the amount of

Perspective It can be a pretty big difference

(like on the picture, where the perspective

is set to 120°), or it can be quite subtle

If you keep decreasing the amount of spective all the way down to 0°, you will notice that the back side is now the same size as the front side (4) This view is called

Per-Parallel view (5)

It is often used for technical drawings (see any product manual) because once the ob-ject is drawn, it can be moved around the space freely For the same advantage, this view was also used in some early computer games – it looks 3D, but you do not have to deal with perspective

The last view is Oblique view (6) This one is taught in schools and I can remember how I hated to draw it It does not look very 3D – it looks ugly The front side has no distortion and we just add the “fake 3D sides” But, with the proper settings, it can create

an interesting effect This tutorial should prove it to you Pity I did not know this dur-ing my school years!

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Start with a blank document, create Text

Box with no fill and no outline, and type

the word COLOR with the font Arial Black,

sized 72 pt (1) Change the font color to

white and page color to light purple –

us-ing ribbon Design › Page Color › More

Colors (1), Custom color RGB 247, 238,

248

Right now the text is almost invisible and

blended with the background, but that is

fine, we will optically separate it from the

background with darker “tails” later

Right click the text box and select

For-mat Shape to display the right forFor-mat

pane (3) Select Text Options (4) › Text

Effects (5), 3-D rotation (6), and from

the Presets dropdown menu (7) select

Oblique › Oblique Bottom Left (8)

Do not be afraid that there is no visual

change in the text itself, it is because it

has no depth To add it, select 3-D format

(9) and increase the Depth size value to

about 200 pt (10) Our text will be

ex-truded right after (11), even if it does not

look quite right yet

We want to have this extruded part in

solid color, without any shading or

high-lights, and in random bright colors

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To get rid of the shading, change the

Lighting to Special › Flat (12) (under

3-D Format settings) Now, not only the

text is white, but also the extruded part (13) To make it nice and readable, we need to change the extrusion color and keep the text white

To do so, select the first character (the extrusion will temporarily disappear), and under 3-D Format, change the Depth color (14) Once you select the color, the text is unselected, and you can see the 3D depth effect again

Repeat the process for every character in the string with different colors, but try to maintain similar hues (15) You do not need to manually define colors, the ones used in this example are Standard colors

When you are finished with the word

COL-OR, you can continue with the next line

Drag the text box with the (Ctrl) key pressed to create a copy and again set a different depth color for each letter And that is it (16)!

The next step is up to you Maybe you will use a different font, darker colors, or a smaller depth? While there are just a few settings, they can create a lot of combi-nations

Estimated Completion Time: 15 Minutes

Difficulty: 

Learn how to:

• Create a 3D text

• Keep the light source unified

• Quickly create cast shadow

Dance! text effect

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For 3D objects, Word contains 11 different

materials and 15 different lighting options

That, together with the lighting Angle

set-ting, allows for unlimited combinations

How do I choose the right one? It is not

very intuitive, as Word, in order to make it

look simple, hides a lot of information You

cannot see what is happening behind the

scenes But you can try it

Let’s start with the Material options and

fo-cus only on the standard ones for now

We have four options to choose from: Matte

(1), Warm Matte (2), Plastic (3) and Metal

(4) The names sound splendid, but what thew really change are basically just the size and brightness of the highlight

For the lighting settings, we will only look

at the Neutral section There are six options

available: Three Point (5), Balance (6),

Soft (7), Harsh (8), Flood (9) and trasting (10)

Con-As you can see on the preview image, some lighting options do not have any, or only very little, shadow, while some have very strong contrast As mentioned previously, the size of the highlight is set by the Mate- rial And to set the direction from which the

light shines, you need to change the ning Angle value

light-While you cannot set the lighting intensity, color or even number of lights, you still have some degree of freedom for your creations

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Start with a blank document, create a

Text Box with no fill and no outline, and

type the first character from the word

DANCE, which is just “D” with the font

Arial Bold, sized 72 pt (1) Change the

font color to standard Orange (2) and set

the paragraph justification to Center –

(Ctrl) + (E) or by clicking the (3) icon

Before moving to the other characters,

we will add 3D depth for this one, and

then use it as a base for all the other

let-ters

Right click the text box and display the

Format pane by clicking Format Shape

Select Text Options (4), Text Effects (5),

3-D Rotation (6) and from the Presets

dropdown menu, select Perspective

He-roic Extreme Left (7) The text is

distort-ed (8), but without any depth it is boring

To add depth, select 3-D Format (9) and

increase Depth size to 30 pt (10)

It is better but still not satisfying The

contrast between the front face and the

extruded part is too high In other words,

the extruded part is too dark We will try

to fix it with different material and

light-ing settlight-ings

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As explained in the tutorial introduction, change the Material to Metal (11) for bigger highlights, and Lighting to Bal- ance (12) for smaller contrast

While the contrast is smaller, the object

is overexposed and too bright We not adjust the lighting intensity, but we can try to change the lighting Angle (13)

can-to see if the light in a different position will produce better results Instead of di-rectly typing the value, keep clicking on the up arrow (14) and see how the object changes Bear in mind that our imaginary light should shine from the top (15), so the highlight should be also on the top of the object (16) A value of around 210°

seems to be just fine

We can move to the other letters Select the text box and drag it with the (Ctrl) key pressed to create a copy Repeat this 5 times, and place the text boxes randomly Edit the letters inside those text boxes to form the word DANCE! and change the

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The next step is to open Text Options ›

3-D Rotation on the Format pane and

randomly rotate each letter using the

buttons next to the X, Y and Z rotation

(22)

This not only changes the view, but also

the lighting conditions – you can see that

our rotated “A” letter now has light

com-ing from the left, not from the top (23)

We need to go to Text Options › 3-D

For-mat and adjust the Lighting Angle to keep

the light position consistent across all the

letters In the case of letter A, it means

ad-justing it to the value of 340° (24)

Repeat this process with every remaining

letter If you want to use the same values

as this tutorial, the pictures on the right

show the X, Y and Z rotation values for

each letter Here is a list of the Lighting

Remember, the light position does not

need to be perfectly accurate, but the

areas facing the ground (25) should be

darker than the ones pointing to the top

(26)

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After we rotate each letter in the 3D space, we need to adjust the positions of the text boxes to have the letters distrib-uted evenly In other words, the spaces between the letters should be just about the same To move the text box precisely, use the arrow keys on the keyboard, rath-

er than the mouse

We can keep the white background, or change it to some other color to make it even more playful On the Design ribbon,

select Page Color › More Colors, and

se-lect dark green (26)

The very last touch is the shadow under the label to support the effect of floating letters above the surface Draw a big Oval

from Insert › Shapes › Basic Shapes in

a dark blue color (27) and move it below the text (right click › Send To Back).

Show the Format pane by right clicking the object and selecting Format Shape,

select Soft Edges (28) under Effects

(29) and set the size to 27 pt (30) This will blur the ellipse quite a lot and create

a nice big shadow

And that is it! It was pretty quick, also because there were just six letters Bear that in mind if you plan to apply this ef-fect on your 25 letter word It can easily become a tedious task

Estimated Completion Time: 25 Minutes

Difficulty: 

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