Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The overall
length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a little taller
(by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought about putting the
text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't stretch the letters.
I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I don't want to use the fonts
there. The font that I must use is AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
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Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a little
taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought about
putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't stretch
the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I don't want
to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word and
I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to accept
what I have if it can't be done in Word.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

Try this:

Get them normal size, take a screenshot (printscreen) and then paste this
back in. Crop it so you only see your letters, and then strech them.

It's not a neat solution, and depending on the quality of the image, may not
be ideal, but without a graphics package, it's probably the best you'll do.

Tom.

"Tosca" wrote:

Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word and
I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to accept
what I have if it can't be done in Word.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

I've yet to see a computer that didn't have some sort of a graphics program.
Don't you have Picture It! or something like that?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word
and I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to
accept what I have if it can't be done in Word.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The problem
about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I've yet to see a computer that didn't have some sort of a graphics
program. Don't you have Picture It! or something like that?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

FWIW, fonts available in Word will be available in all Windows programs.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The
problem
about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I've yet to see a computer that didn't have some sort of a graphics
program. Don't you have Picture It! or something like that?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Picture It! is the graphics program that comes (or used to) with Works
Suite. Fonts would not have been an issue.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The
problem about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I've yet to see a computer that didn't have some sort of a graphics
program. Don't you have Picture It! or something like that?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Sure you do. If you have Windows [Any version], you have MS paint. Crude
but effective for this.
John


"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word
and I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to
accept what I have if it can't be done in Word.

"JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote in message
...
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

On the Character Spacing tab of the Format | Font dialog is a Scale setting.
You need to think laterally to make this work, however, since it doesn't
make letters taller or shorter, only wider or narrower. So you will need to
increase the font size, then decrease the scale to less than 100% (making
the letters narrower).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Tosca" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall
length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a little taller
(by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought about putting the
text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't stretch the
letters.
I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I don't want to use the
fonts
there. The font that I must use is AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.

Suzanne - that's perfect. As you implied, it took a bit of fiddling and
measuring the length of the line against the new one by dragging the right
hand tab setting to the left but I've managed it. Yet another little tip
for my "black book"!

Best wishes.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
On the Character Spacing tab of the Format | Font dialog is a Scale
setting.
You need to think laterally to make this work, however, since it doesn't
make letters taller or shorter, only wider or narrower. So you will need
to
increase the font size, then decrease the scale to less than 100% (making
the letters narrower).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

There was a time when a "little black book" was something other than helpful
computer tips. :-D

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Publisher


"Tosca" wrote:

Suzanne - that's perfect. As you implied, it took a bit of fiddling and
measuring the length of the line against the new one by dragging the right
hand tab setting to the left but I've managed it. Yet another little tip
for my "black book"!

Best wishes.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
On the Character Spacing tab of the Format | Font dialog is a Scale
setting.
You need to think laterally to make this work, however, since it doesn't
make letters taller or shorter, only wider or narrower. So you will need
to
increase the font size, then decrease the scale to less than 100% (making
the letters narrower).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

Well, Tosca didn't qualify his "black book" as "little," so he may still
have one of those, too.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"JoAnn Paules - MVP Publisher"
wrote in message
...
There was a time when a "little black book" was something other than
helpful
computer tips. :-D

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Publisher


"Tosca" wrote:

Suzanne - that's perfect. As you implied, it took a bit of fiddling and
measuring the length of the line against the new one by dragging the
right
hand tab setting to the left but I've managed it. Yet another little
tip
for my "black book"!

Best wishes.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
On the Character Spacing tab of the Format | Font dialog is a Scale
setting.
You need to think laterally to make this work, however, since it
doesn't
make letters taller or shorter, only wider or narrower. So you will
need
to
increase the font size, then decrease the scale to less than 100%
(making
the letters narrower).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

Nope - it's just a hand-written collection of useful computer tips which
I've picked up from here and there! I'm sure that everyone has something
similar, although they may not have to actually commit the information to
paper.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Well, Tosca didn't qualify his "black book" as "little," so he may still
have one of those, too.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"JoAnn Paules - MVP Publisher"
wrote in message
...
There was a time when a "little black book" was something other than
helpful
computer tips. :-D

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Publisher

[WordBanter AI]

Hi there!

Yes, it is possible to make the letters taller in Word 2003. Here's how you can do it:

1. Highlight the text that you want to make taller.
2. Go to the "Format" menu and select "Font".
3. In the "Font" dialog box, select the "Character Spacing" tab.
4. In the "Scale" section, increase the percentage in the "Vertical" box to make the letters taller. You can experiment with different percentages until you get the desired height.
5. Click "OK" to apply the changes.

This method should work with any font, including AladdinExpanded. It's a quick and easy way to adjust the height of your text without having to use Word Art or other special effects.

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