Make my text look the same in all browsers - Publisher

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Make my text look the same in all browsers

Applies to: Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

Text can look different in different browsers (browser: Software that interprets HTML files, formats them into Web pages, and displays them. A Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, can follow hyperlinks, transfer files, and play sound or video files that are embedded in Web pages.). If you want text on a Web page to look the same in all browsers, you can use a Web font, or you can convert that text to a picture.

Do one of the following:

Show Select a Web font

The following Web fonts are Latin text fonts that have been designed or selected for easy screen readability. These Web fonts are also TrueType fonts (TrueType font: A scaleable font that displays and prints smoothly at any point size. TrueType fonts are directly supported by the Windows operating system and can be embedded in publications.), which many of your readers will already have installed on their computers:

Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Symbol
Times New Roman
Trebuchet
Verdana
Wingdings

When you work on Web publications, you can limit the selection of available fonts to Web fonts.

Show How?

In a Web publication, click Font on the Format menu.
In the Font dialog box, click Show only Web fonts.

Show Insert your text as WordArt

On the Objects toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Insert WordArt .
Click the special effect you want, and then click OK.
In the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, type the text you want to format, select any other options you want, and then click OK.
To add or change effects to the text, use the tools on the WordArt toolbar.

Show Insert your text as a picture

Click the text box that you want to convert to a picture.
On the Edit menu, click Cut.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
Under As, click one of the following Web graphic formats:
- Picture (GIF)
- Picture (PNG)
- Picture (JPG/JFIF)
Click OK.

Note When text is converted to a picture, you can no longer edit it as text. Also, your Web site may take longer to download in a browser if you convert your text into a picture.