About text shadows and 3-D effects - Help and How-to

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About text shadows and 3-D effects

Applies to: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Publisher 2003

Depending on the effect you want, you can shadow or emboss text in three different ways:

Add a shadow or embossed effect directly to the text. When you use this method, you can't change such shadow features as offset or color.
Add a shadow or embossed effect to an unfilled object that contains text. With this method, the text takes on the same shadow options as the object, and you can control and change shadow features.
Insert WordArt— a drawing object (drawing object: Any graphic you draw or insert, which can be changed and enhanced. Drawing objects include AutoShapes, curves, lines, and WordArt.) that contains special text effects such as shadowing and perspective.

Text shadowing examples

Callout 1 Add shadow directly to text

Callout 2 Add shadow to a text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.) (unfilled object)

Callout 3 Add WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.)