Old Style Word Art in Word 2010?

Anonymous
2010-07-22T19:06:27+00:00

Could anyone tell me whether it is possible to insert Word Art similar to that in versions of MS Word from 2003 and before?  The Word Art in MS Word 2010 only seems to appear in straight lines, whereas I would sometimes prefer to have the writing in the style of a curved banner?  Have MS just removed this option, oram I looking in the wrong place? It just doesn't seem to be an option? Thanks. P.S, I know the text can be offset at an angle, but clicking on the small green circle, but I want the writing to curve?

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Anonymous
2010-07-23T01:15:17+00:00

Word 2010's WordArt is a bit more powerful than you suspect, I believe. Insert a WordArt object, then, in Drawing Tools - Format, look at Text Effects - Transform. Does that give you what you want?

If not, you can still get the old style. Save the file in Word 2003 format, and now when you choose Insert - WordArt, you'll see the legacy choices.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-10-23T19:48:17+00:00

    After more playing around with Word 2010, I found a combination of bevel and depth and 3D rotation that mimics the effect I saw in WordArt with Word 2003. Not exactly the same, but could probably be tweaked more to get even closer. Ah the joys of software revisions!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-10-23T16:09:12+00:00

    In Word 2010, to get text into shapes like an arc or circle or wave, you can use the Transform effect: Drawing Tools-Format > Text Effects drop list > Transform. An effect from the old Word Art that I cannot duplicate with the text effects in Word 2007/2010 is the depth of the letters, so that they look like individual 3-D letters. Old Word Art has '3D-Effects' for this, but the new ribbon tab has '3D Format' (in the Format Text Effects dialog) and '3D-Rotation'. There probably is a way to get the effect but it's not obvious! Any clues?

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-10-17T05:16:54+00:00

    Sorry the document must have been in Compatibility Mode - meaning in this case that it was created from a dotm template that is shared between Word 2007 and 2010 that had not been saved.  As I have the default save mode in 2010 set to save as docx, as soon as I save it, I can no longer insert WordArt as a curved banner.

    In 2007 on the other hand, even after the document is saved in docx format, a curved banner can still be inserted.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-10-17T01:28:15+00:00

    I am assume you didn't understand what the question was...But, as Herb said, saving to 2003 format still works.

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