Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Inside Out

Creating WordArt

The WordArt button on the Insert tab opens a gallery containing a number of fancy text styles you can employ to create impressive logos and headings. After you click the effect you want in the gallery, a new WordArt object appears on the worksheet. You can then type your text and modify the WordArt object, as shown in Figure 10-15. Notice that selected WordArt objects display the same handles as shapes, including the free rotate panhandle.

The Shape Styles group and the WordArt Styles group contain controls you use to change the look of the WordArt object. These groups appear on the Drawing Tools Format tab, a hidden tab that appears on the ribbon when you select the WordArt object, as shown in Figure 10-15.

Figure 10-15. Use the ...