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Kerning Question
I am typing a word using a font size of 150 and a font type of Subway.
The word is in uppercase. I want to bring the letters together so there is some overlap with adjoining letters within the word. I am using Format Font Character Spacing Spacing Condensed By I then enter a point size. I fool with the point size until Some of the letters are positioned as I want them. My problem is that I may be happy with 20 point for some letters but want to move other letters closer. I can not determine how I select individual letters and just have them move closer to each other. It seems that if I just select 2 letters and change the Condensed By value to 30 that the new value is applied to the entire word and I have too much overlap between the letters outside of those selected. Thanks for any and all help. |
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Make sure that you don't have "When selecting, automatically select whole
word" enabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. Also note that the spacing you apply to a single character affects how close it is to the following one. If you select two characters, then you're affecting the spacing of the second one as well as the first. But really, for what you're apparently trying to do, you'd be much better off with a drawing program that allows you to treat text as graphics and individual letters as objects. -- 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. "mike" wrote in message oups.com... I am typing a word using a font size of 150 and a font type of Subway. The word is in uppercase. I want to bring the letters together so there is some overlap with adjoining letters within the word. I am using Format Font Character Spacing Spacing Condensed By I then enter a point size. I fool with the point size until Some of the letters are positioned as I want them. My problem is that I may be happy with 20 point for some letters but want to move other letters closer. I can not determine how I select individual letters and just have them move closer to each other. It seems that if I just select 2 letters and change the Condensed By value to 30 that the new value is applied to the entire word and I have too much overlap between the letters outside of those selected. Thanks for any and all help. |
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Suzanne,
Thank you for your help. I have it working now. You are right I probably should use a graphics package. The only one I have on my computer is Paint and the few times I tried using it I got very frustrated. That is probably my fault not Paints. For now Word is the path of least resistance. |
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Paint is a paint/photo editing program; for this you need a drawing program.
You'd probably have better luck using WordArt. -- 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. "mike" wrote in message oups.com... Suzanne, Thank you for your help. I have it working now. You are right I probably should use a graphics package. The only one I have on my computer is Paint and the few times I tried using it I got very frustrated. That is probably my fault not Paints. For now Word is the path of least resistance. |
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Suzanne,
What book would you recommend to help learn Word Art. I am using MS Word 2K. I have a book from Microsoft Press titled Running MS Word 2000. It only devotes about 6 pages to WordArt. I am sure there is more to it than that. Thanks. |
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If you can find 6 pages on WordArt, it's more than I've ever seen.
Everything I know has been learned by trial-and-error. But you might see if the Microsoft Web site has anything. There's a little bit in Word's Help. -- 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. "mike" wrote in message oups.com... Suzanne, What book would you recommend to help learn Word Art. I am using MS Word 2K. I have a book from Microsoft Press titled Running MS Word 2000. It only devotes about 6 pages to WordArt. I am sure there is more to it than that. Thanks. |
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