Powerpoint For Mac Creating Curved Text

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When you’re trying to highlight a key part of a chart or table, you may want to use an arrow. It’s fairly easy to create an arrow in PowerPoint 2007, but it is not as obvious how to create an eye-appealing curved arrow. I find that curved arrows are frequently better than straight arrows because they can bend around other important data points in a chart or table rather blocking them. And let’s face it — straight arrows are very boring.

Click where you want the curved line or shape to begin. Click where you want the first turn in the curve to appear. The straight line turns to a curved line, bent around the point where you clicked. As you move the mouse, the bend of the curve changes. Powerpoint Shapes Arrows drawing shapes in powerpoint microsoft powerpoint 2010 there is a wide variety of shapes that you can add to your microsoft powerpoint 2010 presentation you can either add shapes individually or you can bine interactive prototypes with powerpoint boxes and arrows ce your basic mockup is in place you can add hyperlinks to text shapes or images the links won’t be. Open a new PowerPoint file and begin typing into one of the two text boxes on the main slide. Then follow the same procedure as illustrated here. Another way to play with curved text is through the WordArt option, which you can find by clicking the Insert tab.

How can you spot a sexy curved arrow?

You want to minimize the points in the arrow so it is more smooth

Inexperienced PowerPoint users will use straight arrows or ugly curved arrows that look hand drawn. A good curved arrow has a smooth curve – no kinks or abrupt changes in its arc. The more points in an arrow, the more bends you’ll have. The key is to minimize the points or bends(Right click on an arrow and select “Edit Points” to see how many points are in the arrow). The following steps will show you how to add more professional-looking curved arrows to your next set of PowerPoint slides.

Step 1 – Draw the arrow

Select the Freeform shape option -- not the Arrow shape option.

In PowerPoint 2007, if you use the default “arrow” drawing option, you can only create a straight arrow. For whatever reason, you can’t edit the arrow shape so we have to use another shape which is editable — the Freeform drawing shape. Because you’re going to edit the shape once it is drawn, you don’t have to be exact on your initial drawing. Hit the “Esc” key to stop drawing the arrow once you have two points or a straight line segment.

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Step 2 – Edit the points of the arrow

Now that you have a line segment drawn, right click on the line and select “Edit Points” to start adding a curve to the line. Using the blue handle that appears when you click on one of the end points, you’ll be able to change the arc of the line. You may need to play with both ends of the line to achieve the curve you’re looking for. Tip: Make sure your line doesn’t become twisted. Watch the angles of the blue handles — think “smooth” and “gradual”.

Use the blue handles in editing mode to add a curve to your line segment.

Step 3 – Add the arrow end type and width

The last step is to add the arrow’s begin/end type and adjust the width of the arrow. Right click on the curved line segment and select “Format Shape” at the bottom of the pop-up menu. In the Format Shape window, go to the Line Style tab where you will be able to add an end type and change the width. Voila! You have a sexy curved arrow that will be the envy of your co-workers.

The Line Style tab will enable you to add the final touches to your curved arrow.

Since I created this post, I’ve added another article on another approach to creating a “sexy curved arrow”. Check out my follow-up Part II article.

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Personally I'd do it in PowerPoint. Insert the clip art, then make your circular text and surround the image. Group the two objects and save as a picture image that you insert back into Word.

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Ignore this post, there is an easier way. See my other post with pictures.Older versions of Word had a set of 30 WordArt text shapes, so I wondered what would happen if I pasted a circular WordArt shape from Word 2004 into Word 2011. Surprisingly, it pasted fine and it was also editable. That got me thinking that Word 2011 did support those older shapes. So I started exploring the commands available in View > Toolbars > Customize toolbars and menus.
Under the All Commands category, I found a series of DrawInsertWordArt commands. Some have icons that describe the shapes, one has an 'A' icon that brings up the 30-shape menu, some are folders with an arrow, and some have blank icons.
I created a custom toolbar and experimented with all of them by dragging the commands onto the new toolbar. The only commands that work as expected (i.e., produce results just like the old WordArt feature) are, curiously, the eleven commands with blank icons.
When dragging them to the toolbar, they mysteriously become named 'Placeholder.' However, the name can be changed by right-clicking (or control-clicking) on it, as shown in the first command of my custom toolbar below.
Here is a sample of some old WordArt text shapes that I obtained directly in Word 2011 using those newly-found tools, along with a glimpse of the semi-customized toolbar:


Since the above shapes can be rotated, the only two variations you would actually need are the 5th and the 9th. This is how the first DrawInsertWordArt command looks (there are more further down in the list):


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Hi Daniel;
What am I missing? :-) I don't see where all this effort pays off relative to the Transform effects (40 of them) already available in the Text Styles group on the Format contextual tab for WordArt objects... It includes all the earlier Warp choices (Inflate, Deflate, Double Wave 1 # 2, etc.) as well as 4 Follow Path features. Certainly doesn't rival a decent graphic design app, but not a bad convenience :-)
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Hi Daniel,
Those are still there on the Word 2011 ribbon ... just a bit buried. Go to Document Elements > Word Art and type in what you want. Then open the Format tab and in the Text Styles group use the pull-down menu on Effects and hover over the Transform menu.
The frustrating part with Word doing this is they eliminated a drawing selection tool, where you could select the two objects and then group them.
That's why I recommend PowerPoint.
Rich
PS edit ... I see Bob types faster than me :-)
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Where does it lead, Bob? To the fact that I still don't know Word and could not find those effects! Neither could the OP, so I went into 'Word-exploration mode'… albeit in the wrong direction. My dislike for The Ribbon is now one notch higher.

All is not lost if you fancy single-click old-style tools called Placeholder!
Once again, my hat is off to the masters.
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Now, Now.... don't go getting all sensitive on us :-) I just thought you might have discovered something beyond what the Ribbon offered - see my reply to Rich ;-)
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'The frustrating part with Word doing this is they eliminated a drawing selection tool, where you could select the two objects and then group them.'
Wellll, having to Shift+Click only 2-3 objects really isn't justification [for me] to work in a different app then have to go through all the copy/paste or save as a picture then insert, but...
They didn't eliminate the tool, they simply omitted it from any of the default Menu/Toolbar/Ribbon locations. Go into the Customize... dialog, choose the Drawing category, then grab the first command in the Commands list - Select Objects. Unfortunately, they did omit it entirely in Excel {8-/ Go figure!
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'Unfortunately, they did omit it entirely in Excel {8-/ Go figure!'

Maybe that's where I learned it was gone and wrongfully assumed the same for Word.

Thanks ... I still like my PPT option. :-)

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1. Optionally, select the text for the circular path. 2. Click on the Ribbon's Document Elements

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tab.
3. Click on the Insert Word Art icon (shown below) and select a style (you can later modify it, anyway):
4. Word inserts a shape with the selected text. If not text was selected, it show the placeholder text 'Your Text Here.'
5. With the shape selected (blue handles showing), switch to the Ribbon's Format tab, then click on the Effects icon. In the menu that unfolds, select Transform and then the circular option called Circle:
6. Drag the purple diamond in various directions to modify the text shape. Drag the green ball to rotate. Stretch the figure by grabbing the blue handles.

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I have a picture located here;
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag130/CharlesVll/OB_zps1be5f9ac.jpg
I am attempting to have the text moved onto the flag but without any success. I am trying to have the text curving with the flag rather than having it written straight across it.
Any help would be much appreciated.

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