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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so
customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
What version of Word are you using? Can you provide more description about
what you're doing and exactly what difficulty you're encountering. To be able to interpret "can't get the names in the color", we need to know exactly what you're doing. There probably are ways to do what you want in Word, but I personally would use a picture editor of some kind, instead. Word is great with text, but not so great with pictures (as you're discovering). Windows Paint (which comes with Windows) can insert text in different colors, as can the the -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Danny Winfield" Danny wrote in message ... i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
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....as can the free Paint.net application (http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message news  What version of Word are you using? Can you provide more description about what you're doing and exactly what difficulty you're encountering. To be able to interpret "can't get the names in the color", we need to know exactly what you're doing. There probably are ways to do what you want in Word, but I personally would use a picture editor of some kind, instead. Word is great with text, but not so great with pictures (as you're discovering). Windows Paint (which comes with Windows) can insert text in different colors, as can the the -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Danny Winfield" Danny wrote in message ... i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
Herb,
thanks for replying im using Word 2002 // i have overlapped two photos and one of the photos has a stack of 4 colors // all im wanting to do is type in the color name of the solid color over that color. i see it done all the time but cant figure out how to "overwrite" the color name onto the picture // i will be doing this with a few different sets but this is the first and hopefully the most difficult (for me) "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: What version of Word are you using? Can you provide more description about what you're doing and exactly what difficulty you're encountering. To be able to interpret "can't get the names in the color", we need to know exactly what you're doing. There probably are ways to do what you want in Word, but I personally would use a picture editor of some kind, instead. Word is great with text, but not so great with pictures (as you're discovering). Windows Paint (which comes with Windows) can insert text in different colors, as can the the -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Danny Winfield" Danny wrote in message ... i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
If the picture is In Line With Text, use a text box (No Line, No Fill) with
In Front of Text wrapping to put text in front of the picture. -- 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. "Danny Winfield" wrote in message ... Herb, thanks for replying im using Word 2002 // i have overlapped two photos and one of the photos has a stack of 4 colors // all im wanting to do is type in the color name of the solid color over that color. i see it done all the time but cant figure out how to "overwrite" the color name onto the picture // i will be doing this with a few different sets but this is the first and hopefully the most difficult (for me) "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: What version of Word are you using? Can you provide more description about what you're doing and exactly what difficulty you're encountering. To be able to interpret "can't get the names in the color", we need to know exactly what you're doing. There probably are ways to do what you want in Word, but I personally would use a picture editor of some kind, instead. Word is great with text, but not so great with pictures (as you're discovering). Windows Paint (which comes with Windows) can insert text in different colors, as can the the -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Danny Winfield" Danny wrote in message ... i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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How do i insert descriptive text in a picture???
If the picture is In line with text, in Format Text Box, Layout - Advanced
button, make sure that Move object with text is checked. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If the picture is In Line With Text, use a text box (No Line, No Fill) with In Front of Text wrapping to put text in front of the picture. -- 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. "Danny Winfield" wrote in message ... Herb, thanks for replying im using Word 2002 // i have overlapped two photos and one of the photos has a stack of 4 colors // all im wanting to do is type in the color name of the solid color over that color. i see it done all the time but cant figure out how to "overwrite" the color name onto the picture // i will be doing this with a few different sets but this is the first and hopefully the most difficult (for me) "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: What version of Word are you using? Can you provide more description about what you're doing and exactly what difficulty you're encountering. To be able to interpret "can't get the names in the color", we need to know exactly what you're doing. There probably are ways to do what you want in Word, but I personally would use a picture editor of some kind, instead. Word is great with text, but not so great with pictures (as you're discovering). Windows Paint (which comes with Windows) can insert text in different colors, as can the the -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Danny Winfield" Danny wrote in message ... i am trying to put descriptive text in a picture for a web business so customers can see color choices but cant get the names in the colors. any help would be appreciated. |
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