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    iPages '08 Word Art

    I am doing a silly diminutive elementary school method appearance project in my superior year of Radiology School and I desire to do a diminutive word art type thing for the title at the top of the board and I cannot stature out how to stature out Word Art in Pages. I have comprise googled and googled. Yes there a word art corresponding for Pages. Where are the entire the Mac defenders that claim Mac is so superior at imaginative style projects. Surely they be familiar with. It's not similar to I did not pay for "Pages" subsequent to the entire, so I predictable it to at least have comprise an equivalent to the MS product.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    No it does not have comprise an wordart. And how much did you disburse for Pages evaluate to the decades old and much longer developed Office suite. I am going to be totally honest and how to do I say this satisfactorily. Apple is perceptibly prioritizing the development of the characteristics that determine to let the average user generate gorgeous documents by means of no trouble. WordArt is not one of those characteristics. About 99.999999% of several document utilizing wordart looks similar to garbage IMHO so I am hoping Apple by no means implements it So if you are idea of originality requires you to utilize wordart, you might desire to try a dissimilar method of being imaginative.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    You are able to constantly tell when a title has been completed "pretty" by means of Word Art and it frequently immediately looks moreover goofy or tacky. Once you play approximately a bit by means of Pages, there's quite a lot you be able to do by means of the styling alternative that are built-in. Subsequent to reading your situation, I wondered what styles you might build and threw this simultaneously as a quick illustration: Play approximately by means of the graphic alternative in the inspector - you might be astonished what Pages be able to do.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    The pages are astonishingly additional powerful and easier to utilize than folks give it credit for. I utilize it above the entire for layout work and bulletin design and have comprise been pleasurably surprised at what it be able to do. Being an previous MS Publisher user for years, it has been great to locate something native to OS X that be able to do so much for so diminutive a price. I have comprise been recognized to say this regularly, and sometimes replacement the words "Microsoft Publisher" in place of "WordArt". That said, I consider there is tranquil (or in conclusion, depending on how you give the impression of being at it) a program called "TypeStyler" and a less disgracefully priced one called "Art Text" that does a lot of what people imagine of as "WordArt" type stuff, merely this time it looks nicer and a lot less tacky/cheesy.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    I do a lot of layout to run on a weekly basis additional than have comprise and originate that maintaining frills similar to "word art" to a minimum is most excellent. Sometimes it's superior not to have comprise distractions and immediately say what you necessitate to say. Particular attention flyers excepted I am taking into consideration Microsoft Office 2008:Mac, previous to I cough up the entire this money. Does iWork have comprise a WordArt characteristic. I utilize this entire the time for school and I actually approximating iWork 08.Once you have settled on a template or blank starting point, Word lets you add the recognizable flowing text regions, shapes, and lines. One interesting idea that comes into view to be exceptional to Word is AutoShapes. When selected, these shapes present the typical corner grabbers for resizing, additional than in addition have gold grabbers that adjust a set skew, resizing, or positioning characteristic.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    The pages presents comparable shape tools, additional than uses a surrounding grabber to select inside radius, and presents an additional slider control for adjusting the number of star points. To modify the block up color or line weight of Word's AutoShape objective, you basically twice hit it off on it and are then obtainable a modal window by means of settings. The settings you choose are not functional until you OK the window, so this style of editing might necessitate some experimenting to accomplish the look you desire.

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    Re: iPages '08 Word Art

    An additional prominent characteristic in Word 2008 is WordArt, which presents gold grabbers on extraordinary text blocks that be able to be adjusted to skew the lettering or misrepresent text along a curve, for illustration. A variety of predetermined styles are displayed in the WordArt segment of the Elements Gallery. Once generated, a WordArt text block is able to be modified using the similar modal window as AutoShapes or using the Formatting Palette's WordArt settings. The Pages has no correspondent characteristic to WordArt.

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