Apply Text-Formatting Effects - Office : Ultimate Tips and Tricks

You’ll find a number of features in Word 2010 that help you create a pleasing, professional look for documents of all types. Document themes let you choose a consistent color scheme, font style, and object format; Quick Styles give you a gallery of text styles to apply to your text; and the Font and Paragraph groups in the Home tab enable you to make changes to individual words, phrases, lists, and more in the documents you create.

Now Word 2010 gives you the ability to add special touches to the format of your text. You might use a special text effect to create a compelling headline, make a product name stand out, or create an attention-getting banner for a flyer or brochure. You’ll find the Text Effects tool in the Font group of the Home tab. Clicking it reveals a list of ready-to-apply text effects, as well as a collection of artistic effects (Outline, Shadow, Reflection, and Glow) that enable you to fine-tune the look even more.