You get a Text Box dialog to specify properties and a different kind of box is dropped into your document. Make sure the Developer tab on the ribbon is visible. Select Text Box from it and yet a third kind of text box is dropped into your document. Right click to select Properties and you get yet a third popup dialog - Text Form Field Options. Would you like to create a questionnaire, sign-up form, quiz or other type of form that people can fill out on their computer? If so, here are some general instructions on how to create a form using Microsoft Word 2011 or Word 2016 on your Mac.
Highlight the sample text Word Art provided and update the text to your own words. The process is the same using a Mac, looking for the WordArt icon that uses the blue, italicized 'A'. How to Bend Text In PowerPoint. So for instance, if you want to bend the word PEOPLE. Type in the letter P and rotate it, then type in the letter E, rotate it and place next to the letter P. Type in the next letter O, rotate it and place it next to previous 2 letters P E. TextEdit is a small yet surprisingly powerful word processor. Use it to write memos, letters, diaries, novels, grocery lists, memoirs, or any other text document. You can create simple tables and automatically numbered or bulleted lists, add shadows to type, insert images, search and replace text, and more.
Note: While page numbers are shown here, they will, of course, be different on your computer. That's because Word repaginates the entire document to print from your printer with your fonts.
Welcome to my notes! | 13 |
Please read this section before going further | 17 |
Fonts used in this document | 17 |
Displaying this document | 17 |
Why some headings in these notes are coloured | 18 |
The Command key | 19 |
If you’re using a Windows version of Word | 19 |
Menus or keyboard shortcuts? | 19 |
Using hyperlinks in this document | 20 |
A note: Work-arounds for F9, now that it has been used by Exposé in OS 10.3 onwards | 21 |
Sources of information on Word | 21 |
The working preferences and tasks that influenced these notes | 24 |
Configuring your Mac to minimise problems in Word | 25 |
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Recommended modifications to Word’s initial set‑up | 28 |
First step:Back up the settings files immediately after installing Word | 28 |
Increasing Word’s memory allocation (pre-OS X only) | 28 |
To control Word, first dumb it down, then smarten it up | 28 |
Modify these settings to get Word to behave the way you want (well, partly) | 29 |
On the Word or Edit menu | 30 |
On the View menu | 36 |
On the Insert menu | 36 |
On the Format menu | 37 |
On the Tools menu | 37 |
On the Help menu | 39 |
If you have Adobe Acrobat, you should get rid of the toolbar it inserts in Word | 39 |
Further modifications | 40 |
Language, default | 40 |
Buttons, transferring between toolbars | 40 |
Why is it best not to alter the default toolbars? | 41 |
A new Standard toolbar | 42 |
A new Formatting toolbar | 43 |
Buttons, adding to toolbars from the Tools » Commands lists | 45 |
Do this in each case | 45 |
Adding to personal Standard toolbar | 46 |
Adding to personal Formatting toolbar | 46 |
Positions of toolbars | 47 |
Scrollbar, horizontal, and status bar, removing from view | 47 |
Menu item, adding to menu | 48 |
Backing up the Normal template, other templates, and settings files | 48 |
Which files to back up | 48 |
More about backing up | 51 |
What the Normal template and settings files contain | 52 |
What to do if you have a damaged Normal template | 53 |
Testing the template | 53 |
Transferring customisations from a damaged Normal template | 53 |
Modifications later on (in alphabetical order by main keyword) | 53 |
AutoCorrect | 53 |
Date and time, changing format of in headers etc | 54 |
Document map | 54 |
Headers and footers | 54 |
To set up headers and footers | 54 |
Page numbers in headers and footers | 55 |
To continue page numbering shown in the header or footer, or to re-start at 1 | 55 |
To put a portrait-position page number on a landscape page | 55 |
Hyperlinks: de-activating hyperlinks of web URLs and e-mail addresses | 56 |
Hyperlinks: removing the blue underlined formatting from web URLs and e‑mail addresses | 56 |
Keyboard shortcut for strikethrough, restoring as in Word 5.1a | 57 |
Macros | 57 |
Ordinals, removing the superscripted 8-point font (1st) | 57 |
Page numbers | 58 |
Page numbers, re-establishing them when they don’t show during scrolling | 58 |
Section properties | 58 |
Style menu, alternative to formatted pop-down menu | 58 |
Styles | 58 |
Tables | 59 |
Table of contents, compiling | 60 |
Table of contents, formatting of | 61 |
Table of contents, index or other table — updating | 62 |
Table of figures, compiling | 62 |
Track changes, turning off | 62 |
Track changes, important settings for | 64 |
Track changes, using — if you really can’t use “compare documents” | 65 |
Always remember this if you are tracking changes | 65 |
Work menu, documents and commands on | 66 |
Standard keyboard shortcuts in Word | 67 |
Changing keyboard shortcuts | 68 |
Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a button | 68 |
My most often used default keyboard shortcuts | 68 |
Examples of keyboard shortcuts I’ve assigned | 75 |
AutoCorrect — a great time-saver | 79 |
Examples of AutoCorrect items I’ve assigned | 80 |
Using AutoCorrect to prevent Word from nominating text as wrongly spelled | 82 |
Styles and templates — the keys to consistency and saving time | 84 |
What are styles? | 85 |
Do I need to bother with styles? | 85 |
The three sets of styles in Word | 86 |
Some advantages of using styles | 86 |
How styles are applied | 88 |
When to use styles and when to format directly | 90 |
The minimum you need to know about styles | 91 |
Use heading styles in long documents; don’t embolden Normal text | 91 |
Use a body text style, not Normal, in long documents | 95 |
Specifications for style “bt” and other styles used in this document | 96 |
A few more ways to format documents better | 97 |
Good articles on styles | 97 |
Paragraph styles and character styles — what’s the difference? | 98 |
Managing styles | 99 |
Modifying the styles only in the document you are working on | 99 |
Templates — convenient places to store styles and other formatting | 100 |
What is a template? | 100 |
Why create a template? | 100 |
A template for this document | 101 |
Creating a template | 101 |
Attaching a template to a document | 102 |
Finding / changing the template on which a document is based | 102 |
Some advantages of attaching a document to a template other than Normal | 103 |
Basing a style on styles in an existing document | 104 |
Transferring styles | 105 |
Transferring a style from another document — the quickest way | 105 |
Transferring styles with Format Painter — within or between documents | 105 |
Transferring styles from one document or template to another via the Organizer | 106 |
Changing styles in a document then changing the document’s template | 106 |
Modifying styles quickly | 106 |
Restoring paragraph style | 106 |
Restoring character format | 107 |
A note: Work-around for Control-spacebar, now that it’s used by Spotlight in OS 10.4 onwards | 107 |
And a work-around for the F12 key — snatched by OS 10.4 to open Dashboard (widgets) | 108 |
Modifying via Style Area | 108 |
Creating buttons on toolbars to apply selected styles and formatting | 108 |
Creating the toolbar | 111 |
Creating the button | 111 |
Editing the button | 112 |
Transferring a “non-Normal” toolbar to another template or document | 112 |
Applying a style via keyboard shortcuts | 113 |
Stopping Word from changing your definitions of styles | 113 |
Checking whether a style has been manually modified or not | 113 |
Removing manually applied formatting from a style | 114 |
Removing styles from copied text to be pasted in | 114 |
Stopping other people’s styles over-riding yours when they receive your document | 115 |
The setting that over-rides your specifications | 116 |
Three alternatives to prevent over-riding | 116 |
Nowadays I don’t apply Normal style to any paragraph | 117 |
Attaching a small styles toolbar to a document is helpful to my colleagues | 118 |
Avoiding broken numbering sequences | 118 |
Displaying style names in the style area of the document window | 118 |
Printing specifications of styles | 118 |
Revealing automatic and manually applied formatting of a paragraph | 119 |
Miscellaneous tips and reminders (in alphabetical order by main keyword) | 119 |
AutoText (formerly Glossary) | 119 |
Example — creating and inserting a pre-formatted table via AutoText | 120 |
Bookmarks in cross-referencing | 121 |
Borders | 123 |
Comment, deleting | 123 |
“Comment” feature, a simple substitute for | 123 |
Conversion of text from other formats when converters don’t work | 125 |
“Recover Text from Any File” is a dangerous “sticky” setting | 125 |
Corruption of documents, removing | 125 |
Crop marks | 128 |
Cross-references | 128 |
Custom dictionary | 129 |
Document formatting, best ways of | 129 |
Document from someone else — checking and fixing formatting of | 129 |
Document map — be careful before you use it | 130 |
Dragging text from one document to another | 132 |
Fast Saves — avoid this “setting from hell” | 132 |
Field, converting to plain text | 133 |
Field, showing the scripting in | 133 |
Fields, updating | 133 |
“Find” command — useful keyboard shortcuts | 133 |
File size, keeping it small | 133 |
Font size changes when you move the border of the document window | 134 |
Fonts that retain the same pagination on Macs and PCs | 135 |
Fractions, formatting of | 136 |
Function keys, if they don’t work in Word | 136 |
Graphics, source of advice on | 137 |
Graphics, reducing file size caused by | 137 |
Graphics, speeding up document containing | 137 |
Header that shows the electronic title of the document | 138 |
Header that shows the wording of the chapter heading | 138 |
Header that displays the edition details, or other details, from the front page | 139 |
Hyperlink to another document, creating | 140 |
Hyphens, optional and non-breaking | 140 |
Index, creating | 141 |
Language, default — applying to text that has a different version of English | 141 |
Leading (blank space above and/or below a paragraph) | 141 |
Linked object’s setting — change to automatic or manual updating | 141 |
Manually imposed (colour) highlights | 141 |
Master documents — best avoided | 142 |
“Minimum maintenance” formatting | 143 |
Normal view, why it’s best used when working on a long document | 143 |
Numbered headings; outline numbering | 144 |
Numbering, automatic | 144 |
Outline view | 145 |
Page breaks, avoiding | 145 |
Paragraph spacing — Word uses greater of two values for leading | 145 |
PCs and Macs, main differences in Word interfaces | 145 |
Print preview, advantage of | 147 |
“Read-only recommended” protection | 147 |
Recovering badly damaged documents | 147 |
Re-formatting text obtained from the Web or other sources | 148 |
“Replace” pane — useful keyboard shortcuts | 148 |
Saving documents, strategies for | 148 |
Screenshots, pasting directly into Word | 149 |
Space, non-breaking | 149 |
Symbols and accented letters, inserting | 149 |
Track changes / reviewing | 150 |
Transferring documents to/from other computers, especially PCs | 150 |
Versioning — best avoided | 150 |
Web toolbar, to stop it appearing when clicking on TOC or other hyperlinks | 150 |
Windows of the same document — opening two or more | 151 |
Some retrograde features of Word 2001 and later — and some work‑arounds | 151 |
“Automatically update” tickbox in “Modify style” window is dangerous | 151 |
Bullets | 152 |
Case format limitations | 153 |
Corruption in some Word 5 documents opened in later versions of Word | 153 |
Dates — common variants are not easy to invoke | 153 |
De-splitting the document — controlling which half disappears | 154 |
“Disc full — cannot save” (the “60 saves” bug) | 154 |
This template may help | 155 |
Find / Replace problems in Word 2001 | 155 |
Font colour — quickly changing a selection | 156 |
Footnotes | 156 |
Spaces inserted or deleted by “smart cut and paste” | 158 |
Margins — changing the size of | 158 |
Print Preview — losing the place on coming out of | 159 |
Scrolling is too fast | 159 |
Spelling — ignoring one instance of mis-spelling | 159 |
Totalling columns and other series of numbers | 159 |
Appendix A: The main “minimum maintenance” features of my documents | 160 |
To avoid having to manually alter your formatting before printing or e‑mailing | 162 |
To minimise problems on other people’s computers (Mac or PC) | 164 |
To minimise document corruption | 166 |
Appendix B: Specifications for some of my styles — especially to reduce the chances of changed appearance on other computers | 167 |
The advantages of including leading (blank space above or below) in styles | 172 |
Leading above, or below, paragraphs? | 173 |
Appendix C: Making a toolbar with buttons for a variety of date formats | 176 |
Dates in “updating” format | 176 |
Dates in fixed format | 178 |
Dates in fixed non-standard format | 179 |
Appendix D: Making buttons for formatting shortcuts | 181 |
Making a new toolbar, button and macro | 183 |
Making your own toolbar icons | 185 |
Useful buttons and macros | 186 |
View the document at 125 per cent | 187 |
Paste unformatted text / plain text | 187 |
“No proofing” button | 188 |
Hide Web toolbar | 188 |
Apply a preferred language to selected text | 188 |
Add or subtract two points of paragraph leading | 189 |
Prevent cells (rows) from breaking across the page | 190 |
Font colour buttons | 190 |
Change the font of the Normal (or another) style | 192 |
Delete unwanted OLE_LINK bookmarks | 193 |
For frequently used commands, a keyboard shortcut alone may suffice | 194 |
A keyboard shortcut to go to the table of contents from anywhere in the document | 194 |
A keyboard shortcut to reduce the leading under headings 3, 4 and 5 | 195 |
Appendix E: Checks before printing | 196 |
Appendix F: Formatting of fractions using AutoCorrect | 198 |
Appendix G: Automating standard comments via AutoText items on a toolbar | 202 |
You can add shapes to your SmartArt graphic either from within the SmartArt graphic or from within the Text pane. You can also add text boxes to position text anywhere you want to, near or on top of your SmartArt graphic.
What do you want to do?
Add text from within the SmartArt graphic
- Click the shape in the SmartArt graphic to which you want to add text.
- Do one of the following:
- Type your text in the SmartArt graphic shape.
- Copy text from another location or program, and then paste your text in the SmartArt graphic shape.
Add text using the Text pane
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- Click your SmartArt graphic to select it.
- If the Text pane is not visible, click the control on the left side of your SmartArt graphic.
- Next to the bullet to which you want to add text, click [Text], and then do one of the following:
- Type your text in the Text pane.
- Copy text from another location or program, and then paste your text in the Text pane.
Add text using a text box
Adding a text box does not add text to the SmartArt graphic itself, but allows you to position comments and other text wherever you like, close to or on top of your SmartArt graphic.
- On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box.If you're using Microsoft Office Word 2007, click the type of text box that you want.
- Click the text box, and then do one of the following:
- Type your text in the text box.
- Copy text from another location or program, and then paste your text in the text box.
- Drag the text box to the location that you want.
- To format your text box, in order to change its appearance or make its background and border invisible, see: