Then look for a new Format Shape tab wording may vary. There you can get creative with the box width, color, line, and more. The best way to add a proper horizontal rule is to use the Horizontal Line feature found on the Borders drop down menu in the Paragraph section. Love it! What if I want a solid line that is broken up by text? Is it possible to add a fixed-size short line and include it into my style, without limiting the paragraph length. This is a title with a page wide line under it This is what normal border, frames, underlines allow ———————————————————————————————————————————————.
I could add this kind of line using shapes and using tables, however I would like to have it directly in my style formatting. You sure can! Alicia I did the three characters and enter to make the horizontal line and for the life of me I cannot get it to do the line. Hi Cindy, Your AutoCorrect settings might be off. Go to AutoCorrect Options and click on all the tabs in window — there are several. Hi alicia. Please give me some way to draw it. I will be thanksfull you to this.
Sincerly Noorul Quamar. The default Table of Contents, when created properly, will do that automatically. First, use the Styles to format the Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 content. After that, you can then also change the … tab leaders in several different styles. After I add the lines with the Auto Format option number 1 how do I change the color of the lines? I accidentally told Word not to allow automatic horizontal line shortcuts and I cannot add it back.
How do you add the shortcut back? Hi Tal, What version of Word are you using? Be sure to click on all the tabs in that AutoCorrect Options — there are several. Hi Alicia. This is great, except Word replaces two hyphens with an m-dash which I like. So when typing three hyphens, I get — —.
Hi Lori, The line acts just like a giant letter. You can backspace over it, forward-delete it, or highlight it and erase it. Let me know if that works! That works if you want to undo it immediately after you create it.
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Add Bottom Borders This technique works best on Headings. Click where the line begins, and drag to where the line ends. Himanshu singh on October 18, at am. Appreciate your work Reply. Swarup on July 31, at pm. Alicia Katz Pollock on July 31, at pm. Glad you figured it out. You could also increase the Spacing above or below the text!
Suzanne on June 9, at pm. Hi there! Alicia Katz Pollock on July 18, at pm. Patrick Vasquez on April 23, at pm. Alicia Katz Pollock on April 24, at am. Aditya on February 6, at am. Thanks Reply. Alicia Katz Pollock on February 6, at pm. Randy on October 28, at am. Alicia Katz Pollock on October 29, at pm. Yvonne Agbey on April 26, at am.
Thank you very much Alicia! Just what made my life easier today. Gus on November 16, at am. Alicia Katz Pollock on November 16, at pm. Dishank on August 9, at pm. See Figure 1. Note that the dialog box includes a drop-down list entitled Underline Style. Click on the list and you can choose any of 18 ways to underline your text including "None and Words Ony". For some people, this variety still might not be enough. For instance, you may want to underline your text using fine dots, rather than a dashed underline or heavy dotted underline, both of which are options in the Underline Style drop-down list.
This is where it would be nice to create custom underlines in Word. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this. You could, of course, use the drawing capabilities of Word to create just the type of lines you want, but you would need to place them individually and then move them if your text moves. A better solution, particularly if you will be doing lots and lots of underlining in a particular manner, is to create your own font that incorporates just the type of underlining you need.
Using a font editor there are many on the market you can pick whatever font you want, modify that font to include the underlines, and then save the font under a new name. When you want the custom underline, just switch the font on the selected text. Of course, if you create a custom font and then share the document with others, you will either need to make sure that the others also have the font or you'll need to embed the font within the document as described in other issues of WordTips.
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Check out Word For Dummies today! If you have a document that has some sort of keyword within it such as "Section" you may want to automatically format Word allows you to format your text in a number of different ways. The Drawing Tools Format tab appears. Click outside of your text box to see the effect. In this example, a light blue text fill and a red text outline were applied. Create curved or circular WordArt, and add other text effects.
You can curve text around a circular object. In your Word document, select the text to convert to WordArt. Double-click the WordArt that you want to remove, and then press Delete. Insert WordArt Click where you want to insert decorative text in a document. Click any WordArt style, and start to type. Do more things with WordArt Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions.
Click anywhere in the WordArt text that you want to change. Enter your text. Type your text in the Text box. Select the text that you want to convert to WordArt.
Excel Do one or more of the following: To change the text, select it , and then make the changes that you want. Outlook Do one or more of the following: To change the text, select it , and then make the changes that you want.
PowerPoint Do one or more of the following: To change the text, select it , and then make the changes that you want. Publisher Do one or more of the following: To change the text, select it , and then make the changes that you want.
Word Do one or more of the following: To change the text, select it , and then make the changes that you want.
Excel When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text. Select the WordArt text that you want to remove the WordArt style from.
PowerPoint When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text. Do the following for all programs listed in the Applies To at the top of the article. Double-click the WordArt that you want to remove to select it, and then press Delete. In Office for Mac or later, select the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
Select WordArt , and pick the WordArt style you want. To create curved or circular WordArt text, you add a Transform text effect. Select the WordArt. When you do that, the Shape Format tab appears.
To change the color of the WordArt text, you change the Text Fill. Click Text Fill , and pick the color you want. Select the text to convert to WordArt.
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