Add or delete WordArt

WordArt is a gallery of text styles that you can add to your Microsoft Office system documents to create decorative effects, such as shadowed or mirrored (reflected) text. In Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you can also convert existing text into WordArt.

You can change WordArt text like you can change any other text in a shape.What do you want to do?

Add WordArt

Convert existing text to WordArt in Office PowerPoint

Remove the WordArt style for Excel or PowerPoint

Delete the WordArt

Add WordArt

For these Office release programs: Excel and PowerPoint

1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt style that you want.
2. Enter your text.

   Notes:

   • You can customize the shape surrounding the WordArt as well as the text in the WordArt.
   • If you have a chart in your Office release document, you can replace the chart title with WordArt to give the title additional emphasis.

For these Office release programs: Outlook and Word

1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt style that you want.
2. Type your text in the Text box.

   Tip You can customize the shape surrounding the WordArt as well as the text in the WordArt.

For Office Publisher

1. On the Objects toolbar, click Insert WordArt .
2. In the WordArt Gallery, click the WordArt that you want, and then click OK.
3. Type your text in the Text box.

   Tip If you want to change the text in the WordArt, double-click the WordArt that you want to change, and then type the new text in the Text box.

Convert existing text to WordArt in Office PowerPoint

1. Select the text that you want to convert to WordArt.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt that you want.

   

Note You can customize the shape surrounding the WordArt as well as the text in the WordArt.

Remove the WordArt style for Excel or PowerPoint

When you remove the WordArt style from your text, the text remains and changes to plain text.

1. Select the WordArt text that you want to remove the WordArt style from.
2. Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click the More button , and then click Clear WordArt.

   Tip To remove the WordArt style from part of your text, select the text that you want to remove the WordArt style from, and then follow the steps above.

Delete the WordArt

• Select the WordArt that you want to remove, and then press DELETE.

See also:

• Add or delete a fill, outline, or effect for text or WordArt