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Formatting text and creating WordArt

Formatting text and creating WordArt

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Formatting text and creating WordArt

- While the presentation is definitely starting to look great already, we can make the text a bit flashier using something called WordArt and applying styles. WordArt transforms text you already have into something that looks like it was made by a graphic artist or at least a little bit more interesting than basic text. Let's start applying some WordArt to this section header. I'm going to click and drag to highlight the text. Instead of changing the font properties on the Home ribbon tab, a new Drawing Tools Format tab has appeared. Clicking on that tab will bring us to some WordArt styles. I can click the down arrow and see some styles that I can instantly pull from to change my text. The color scheme matches that of the theme that we picked for the presentation. In addition to WordArt, I can also add Text Effects such as shadows, reflections, and 3-D rotations. I can also transform the text. If I hover my mouse over it, I can get a preview of how it's going to look. As you can see,…

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