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MS Office Forum / Word / Printing and Fonts / March 2006Rainbow Font
How do I go about turning text in ms word into a rainbow. I have looked everywhere for a free version and can't find one anywhere. > How do I go about turning text in ms word into a rainbow. I have > looked everywhere for a free version and can't find one anywhere. Plain, editable, text can't be multi-colored - fonts can only be a single color (plus the background). For relatively simple effects, In Word 2003, Insert / Picture / WordArt; the way to access WordArt may be slightly different in earlier versions. I forget exactly how in each version, but Wordart has been available in Word for a long time. For more elaborate effects you'll need a graphics program. - Character I think even with WordArt you'd be hard-pressed to get a rainbow gradient effect using just the available patterns. What you can do, however, is you have a rainbow background, is use it for a Picture "fill effect" in WordArt.  SignatureSuzanne 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. > > How do I go about turning text in ms word into a rainbow. I have > > looked everywhere for a free version and can't find one anywhere. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > - Character > I think even with WordArt you'd be hard-pressed to get a rainbow gradient > effect using just the available patterns. What you can do, however, is you > have a rainbow background, is use it for a Picture "fill effect" in WordArt. It's one of the options - although the "rainbow" blend is across all of the text, not individual letters, unless you do one letter at a time. Really pretty slick! In fact, looking at it a little closer now, there are really LOTS of rainbow options - it's much better than I had thought! - Character Well, I posted without testing, since I use WordArt practically not at all since it changed from something useful to something unusable. SignatureSuzanne 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. > > I think even with WordArt you'd be hard-pressed to get a rainbow gradient > > effect using just the available patterns. What you can do, however, is you [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > - Character > Well, I posted without testing, since I use WordArt practically not at all > since it changed from something useful to something unusable. I generally don't have a need for it, but I have been recommending it. I'm curious - why do you consider it unusable? (Maybe I should stop recommending it!) It's been unusable since whenever it was that they made it part of EscherArt rather than a separate applet. It is well nigh impossible to make it resemble ordinary text (which would be one of the chief uses for it since you can't rotate ordinary text). There is no gallery selection that's relatively unadorned that you can even start with. It's very difficult to get rid of or change some of the effects on the fancier gallery selections. I could go on. SignatureSuzanne 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, I posted without testing, since I use WordArt practically not at all > > since it changed from something useful to something unusable. > > I generally don't have a need for it, but I have been recommending it. > I'm curious - why do you consider it unusable? (Maybe I should stop > recommending it!) > It's been unusable since whenever it was that they made it part of EscherArt > rather than a separate applet. It is well nigh impossible to make it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > get rid of or change some of the effects on the fancier gallery selections. > I could go on. Thanks for the enlightenment .. The second gallery option straightens out pretty well. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > It's been unusable since whenever it was that they made it part of > EscherArt [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> I'm curious - why do you consider it unusable? (Maybe I should stop >> recommending it!) Yes, I guess that's probably the best of a flamboyant lot. <g> Especially if you change the font first. Thanks for pointing that out; somehow I'd been overlooking it and trying to use the third one, though it's not too bad, either. I just tend to use Publisher for anything that requires rotated text. SignatureSuzanne 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. > The second gallery option straightens out pretty well. > > It's been unusable since whenever it was that they made it part of [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >> I'm curious - why do you consider it unusable? (Maybe I should stop > >> recommending it!) I don't know of such a font but expect there is something available commercially. So far as I know, you can't do this within Word unless you convert your text to some kind of graphic (i.e. Word Art). However, check out the font animations that are available: Format > Font > Animated Text Las Vegas Lights or Sparkle Text may give you something close to what you want. Use these sparingly. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > How do I go about turning text in ms word into a rainbow. I have > looked everywhere for a free version and can't find one anywhere. A Google search for "rainbow font" turns up: http://www.theill.com/hfc/ Says it works to color things in Word. Don't know. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I don't know of such a font but expect there is something available >commercially. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> How do I go about turning text in ms word into a rainbow. I have >> looked everywhere for a free version and can't find one anywhere. |
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