WordArt is a text modifying feature in Microsoft Word, a popular word processing program. It includes effects such as shadows, outlines, colors, gradients, and 3D effects that can be added to a word or phrase. WordArt can also bend, stretch, skew, or otherwise modify the shape of the text.
WordArt can be added within a Word document by selecting Insert→Picture→WordArt... This opens the WordArt dialog box, which gives the user several text styles to choose from. Once a style has been selected, the user types the text that the style will be applied to and the result is saved as an image within the document. The WordArt can then be moved or modified by selecting Modify→WordArt.
The OpenOffice.org office suite has a similar feature to WordArt, called FontWork. Photoshop 7 and later also includes a Warp Text feature, which provides similar text modification options.
How to use WordArt in Word 2019/365. Note: Although this tutorial focuses on the process to arch text in word, you can also use it to arch your text in powerpoint. Step by Step: Arching Your Text in MS Word. Open your MS Word document. Write down your text and move the cursor around it. Tap the Insert tab (at the top). Locate and select the arrow underneath WordArt. WordArt is essentially a text box on steroids. It lets you create text that behaves like a graphic, tucked inside its own text box, which is also a graphic. Word offers 30 preformatted WordArt Quick Styles, but you can further accent WordArt text with angles, colors, textures, 3-D effects, shading, and shapes.
Updated: December 3, 2007
This index page last revised: 28 Mar 2021 15:19:03 -0500 .
WordArt is on the Insert Tab - the Insert Tab is shown above from Word 2013.
WordArt Dropdown in the Insert Tab
WordArt has been a component of Word for some time and continues under the Insert Tab. However, its appearance differs.
Word 2007
This gallery dropdown is the view of WordArt straight from Word 2003.
Word 2010
This changed dramatically in Word 2010-2013 with the introduction of a new graphics engine in Word. However, once WordArt is created, the use of Text Effects under the Drawing Tools Context Tab can manipulate it.
Note, that this is in a document in Word 2010-2013 native .docx format. If the document is in Word 97-2003 .doc format we see the same gallery as in Word 2007.
However, it is possible to have your cake and eat it too! The next screenshot is from a Word 2010 screen in a document formatted as a native Word 2010 .docx document. An Add-in containing a custom Building Blocks (AutoText) gallery is in use. That .dotx template also has a QAT modification to allow quick access to the gallery. This was done using tools from Greg Maxey's site (not required, just easier) and contains no macros. This Add-In can be downloaded for free from my downloads page.
If instead, you used Insert > WordArt in this document, you would get the Word 2010 dropdown.
In Word 2010-2013 the tabs to modify WordArt vary depending on whether you are using the new WordArt object or a legacy object.
Wordart In Word 2010
The screen shot above shows the WordArt Tools (Format) tab being displayed in Word 2010. This is actually the same tab as is used for WordArt in Word 2007 and gives all of the options including a gallery of Classic Word Art. It shows up when a Classic WordArt object is selected. In Word 2013 the WordArt Tools tab only shows up if the document is in compatibility mode. If it is in native Word 2013 .docx format the WordArt object will be modified and will be manipulated by the Drawing Tools.
The screen shot below shows the same document except with a modern WordArt Object selected.
Note that the contextual tab is the Drawing Tools tab rather than the WordArt Tools tab.
Charles Kenyon August 22, 2013.
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