
Microsoft recommends trying out style sets with a new font, Gabriola, or with Calibri, Cambria, Constantia, or Corbel-four fonts that were also included in earlier versions of Word. You'll have to experiment to figure out which ones work best.

The same effects are available as WordArt in PowerPoint 2010 and in Excel 2010.Ĭreate your own calligraphy (Word, Publisher): Want to give a document an elaborate copperplate handwriting look? Click the lower right corner of the Font group to launch the Font dialog box, and then click the Advanced tab to access settings for custom kerning (spacing between characters), ligatures, and stylistic sets, which create the extended swirls that give some fonts a calligraphic look.īy default, 20 stylistic sets are listed but not all OpenType fonts have that many different styles, and some fonts change very little in response to the style set you use. It creates a text box in which anything you type supports Text Effects. The WordArt feature in Word and other Office apps still appears in the Insert tab. To get a set of effects that doesn't appear in the pop-up Text Effects gallery, click the lower right corner of the Font group to launch the Font dialog box, and then click the Text Effects button at the bottom for a complete set of options. You can still edit the text, run a spelling check on it, change the underlying font, and do everything else that you can do with regular text.

Office 2010's Font group (aka the Home tab) adds a Text Effects button that enables you to apply WordArt effects to text without transforming it into a graphic. But WordArt text was essentially a type of image it didn't behave like text. Apply Text Effects to your documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel): In Office 2007, Microsoft introduced WordArt, which let users create text incorporating decorative fonts with effects such as reflections, glows, and outlines.
