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In chapter Software to the question of how to make the outline of a letter in Word given by the author Alexander Belinin the best answer is Look at the bottom for the inscription - insert word art objects (Letter A is drawn in blue). The first inscription style is the outline of the letters. Just choose the font size and style.

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If you mean a letter written in a font with dotted lines, then no way. By default, fonts are usually created as follows: regular, bold, italic, bold italic (but there may be others), each letter is written in a special font file, so if the creator of the font did not create a “letter outline”, then you will not be able to do it in any way get. Perhaps there is a font you are interested in on the Internet, you need to look for it.

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In Word 2010 Font / Text effects / Text outline. I don't remember in previous versions. Also look in the Font option. Or through WordArt.

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Thank you very much Konstantin is a genius, I’ve been looking for it for a long time and today I made a table of hundreds

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The question of how to make a stencil in Microsoft Word interests many users. The problem is that finding a sane answer to it on the Internet is not so easy. If you are interested in this topic, you have come to the right place, but first, let's figure out what a stencil is.

A stencil is a “perforated plate,” at least that’s the meaning of the word exactly translated from Italian. We will briefly talk about how to make such a “plate” in the second half of this article, and immediately below we will share with you how to create the basis for a traditional stencil in Word.

Lesson: How to make a document template in Word

Font selection

If you are ready to get seriously confused, using your imagination at the same time, to create a stencil, you can quite easily use any font presented in standard set programs. The main thing, when it is printed on paper, is to make jumpers - places that will not be cut out in the letters limited by the outline.

Lesson: How to change the font in Word

Actually, if you are ready to sweat so much over the stencil, it is not clear why you need our instructions, since you have all MS Word fonts at your disposal. Choose the one you like, write a word or type the alphabet and print it on a printer, and then cut them along the contour, not forgetting the jumpers.

If you are not ready to spend so much effort, time and energy and a stencil classic look you are quite satisfied, our task is to find, download and install that same classic stencil font. We are ready to save you from a grueling search - we found everything ourselves.

The Trafaret Kit Transparent font completely imitates the good old Soviet TS-1 stencils with one pleasant bonus - in addition to the Russian language, it also contains English, as well as a number of other characters not present in the original. You can download it from the author's website.

Download Font Trafaret Kit Transparent

Setting the font

In order for the font you downloaded to appear in Word, you must first install it on the system. Actually, after this it will automatically appear in the program. You can learn how to do this from our article.

Lesson: How to add a new font in Word

Creating a stencil base

Select Trafaret Kit Transparent from the list of fonts available in Word and create the desired inscription. If you need an alphabet stencil, write the alphabet on the document page. Other symbols can be added as needed.

Lesson: Inserting symbols in Word

The standard portrait orientation of a sheet in Word is not the best suitable solution to create a stencil. It will look more familiar on a landscape page. Our instructions will help you change the position of the page.

Lesson: How to do album sheet in Word

Now the text needs to be formatted. Set the appropriate size, select the appropriate position on the page, and provide sufficient padding and spacing, both between letters and between words. Our instructions will help you do all this.

Lesson: Formatting text in Word

Maybe, standard format A4 sheet will not be enough for you. If you want to change it to a larger one (A3, for example), our article will help you do this.

Lesson: How to change sheet format in Word

Note: When changing the sheet format, do not forget to change the font size and related parameters accordingly. No less important in this case are the capabilities of the printer on which the stencil will be printed - support for the selected paper format is required.

Stencil printing

Having written the alphabet or inscription and formatted this text, you can safely proceed to printing the document. If you don't know how to do this yet, be sure to read our instructions.

Lesson: Print documents in Word

Creating a stencil

As you understand, there is practically no sense in a stencil printed on a regular piece of paper. It can hardly be used more than once. That is why the printed page with the base for the stencil needs to be “strengthened”. To do this you will need the following:

  • Cardboard or polymer film;
  • carbon copy;
  • Scissors;
  • Shoemaker or stationery knife;
  • Pen or pencil;
  • Board;
  • Laminator (optional).

The printed text must be transferred to cardboard or plastic. In the case of transferring to cardboard, ordinary carbon paper (copy paper) will help to do this. You simply need to place the page with the stencil on the cardboard, placing carbon paper between them, and then trace the outline of the letters with a pencil or pen. If you don't have carbon paper, you can press the outlines of the letters with a pen. A similar thing can be done with transparent plastic.

And yet, with transparent plastic it is more convenient, and it would simply be more correct to do it a little differently. Place a sheet of plastic on top of the stencil page and trace the outline of the letters with a pen.

After the stencil base created in Word is transferred to cardboard or plastic, all that remains is to cut out the empty spaces using scissors or a knife. The main thing is to do it strictly along the line. It is not difficult to move the knife along the edge of the letter, but the scissors must initially be “driven” into the place that will be cut, but not into the edge itself. It is better to cut plastic with a sharp knife, after placing it on a strong board.

If you have a laminator on hand, the printed sheet of paper with the stencil base can be laminated. Having done this, cut out the letters along the contour stationery knife or scissors.

When creating a stencil in Word, especially if it is an alphabet, try to make the distance between the letters (on all sides) no less than their width and height. If this is not critical for the presentation of the text, the distance can be made a little larger.

If to create a stencil you did not use the Trafaret Kit Transparent font we suggested, but any other (not stencil) presented in the standard Word set, let us remind you once again, do not forget about the jumpers in the letters. For letters whose outline is limited by internal space (an obvious example is the letters “O” and “B”, the number “8”), there must be at least two such jumpers.

That's all, actually, now you know not only how to do Word basis for a stencil, but also about how to make a full-fledged, dense stencil with your own hands.

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In some cases, for aesthetic reasons, you want to create so-called “empty inside” signs.
Technically, these are signs white, bordered by a dark (usually black) border.
Such signs can be easily created in Word using the option Text effects.
To do this, select one or more characters (letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.) (to demonstrate the white color inside, they should be quite large).
Option Text effects in Word 2010 opens as follows: tab home- group Font– arrow to open the dialog box Font- button Text effects, opening a window Text effects format.
Set the text outline in the window Text effects format: tab Text Outline – Solid Line – Color: Black.
Next, set the text fill in the same Text Effects Format window: tab Text Fill – Solid Fill – Color: White.
Closing the window Text effects format(button Close- button OK) and get signs with the required effect.

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A professional document must not only be drawn up according to GOST standards, but also look beautiful. Beautiful text is an additional plus.

In the Word editor, the following are responsible for the beauty of the text: fonts, margins, numbering, styles and much more, but in this article we will talk about effects that will help turn an ordinary title into a design masterpiece.

  • Text effects in Word:
    • Preset styles;
    • Structure;
    • Shadow;
    • Reflection;
    • Backlight.
  • An example of how to make beautiful text in Word:

Text effects in Word

Word editor includes great amount text effects, using which you can add an individual style to any document.

It’s clear that you shouldn’t overdo it with effects; they should be used only where appropriate and only in the quantities needed.

Adding effects is done as follows:

  1. Select the fragment of the document you are interested in.
  2. Go to the "Home" tab.
  3. In the “Font” block, activate the “Text Effects and Design” command.
  4. Select the effect you are interested in from the drop-down list.

Let's list the available text effects in Word.

Preset Styles

The developers offered a choice of their own list of 15 preset styles with already built-in effects for text.

  1. Fill - black, text 1 with shadow.
  2. Fill - blue, accent 1 with shadow.
  3. Fill - orange, accent 2, outline - accent 2.
  4. Fill - white, outline - accent 1 with shadow.
  5. Fill - golden, accent 4, soft baguette frame.
  6. Gradient fill - gray.
  7. Gradient fill - blue, accent 1, reflection.
  8. Gradient fill - golden, accent 4, outline - accent 4.
  9. Fill - white, outline - accent 1, highlight - accent 1.
  10. Fill - gray 50%, accent 3, rough baguette frame.
  11. Fill - black, text 1, outline - background 1, thick shadow - background 1.
  12. Fill - dark blue, text 1, outline - background 1, thick shadow - background 1.
  13. Fill - blue, accent 1, outline - background 1, thick shadow - accent 1.
  14. Fill - white, outline - accent 2, thick shadow - accent 2.
  15. Fill - gray 25%, background 2, shadow inside.

Structure

Using commands from the “Structure” category, you can set the color of the text, change the font thickness and assign a line type.

Very often there are cases when you need to add volume to the text. Shadows, the most effective way to solve this problem.

The Word editor range includes:

  • Outdoor shades;
  • Inner shadows;
  • Perspective shadows.

To create your own shadow option, use the “Shadow Options” command.

If you want to remove a shadow from the text, select “No Shadow”.

Reflection

The text with reflection looks very beautiful and stylish. There are 9 options to choose from with varying offsets and reflection thicknesses.

You can set your own text reflection style in the “Reflection Options” command.

The No Reflection command removes the effect from the text.

Backlight

Highlighting gives text a glow. The set has 24 effect options, or rather 6 options with different color effects and 4 for each with increased backlighting.

An example of how to make beautiful text in Word

Now that we are familiar with the effect options in the Word editor, it’s time to show your imagination and make beautiful text in a document yourself.

For example, let’s take any text in which we will create beautiful headings.

Choosing a beautiful font for text

There are a huge number of beautiful fonts. There are fonts for business documents, there are for children's themes, etc.

You can choose a font to suit your needs on the website

You need to understand what font will be initially chosen, this will be the attitude towards the document. And no matter how it is designed, 80% of the success should be given to the fonts.

In my case, I’ll choose the “Roboto” font; I really like this design, modern, not too wide and easy to read.

Editing text in a document

On next stage, it is necessary to arrange all the indents, margins and separate one part of the text from the other so that nothing merges.

Create beautiful text design

At the beginning of the article it was mentioned that an overabundance of effects will not improve, but will worsen perception. After experimenting a little, I came to the conclusion that the most the best option design will be like this:

Only the title was beautifully designed. We assigned a preset style to 13, added reflection and enlarged the font.

The subheading was highlighted in a different color to make it different from the main one.

It’s worth finishing here, since the main elements are quite readable. They are clearly visible, but at the same time they do not interfere with reading the article.

Experiment with beautiful text in Word and send your design options in the comments.

Hello. How to make text transparent in Microsoft Word?

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Hello.

In the process of typing text, creating website pages or program interfaces, it may be necessary to make part of the text or all of the text transparent. Text transparency is very conditional on a computer and in various programs it is implemented according to the same principle. The method of creating transparent text can be seen using the example text editor Microsoft Word.

To start creating transparent text, use the background color where the text will be typed. Next you need to find out the code for this color. To do this, in the main menu of the editor you need to select “Format”, in the submenu that appears you need to place the cursor on the line “Background”, and then select the item “Other colors”. A window will appear where the code of the selected color will be written below the color spectrum. It must be remembered or written down.

Next, you need to open the “Format” item in the editor’s main menu, and then “Font”. In the font properties window that opens, select the “Font” tab. Next, you need to click on the color selection bar (under the “Text Color” line), then you need to select “Other colors”. In the color selection window that opens, you must enter the background color code you recorded earlier. Thus, the text color will merge with the background color, visually the text will appear transparent (invisible).

To read transparent text, you can simply select it with the mouse.

One such tool is Text Warp. Using this tool, you can make text, for example, wavy, and also write it along the contour of a circle and, of course, along many other intricate contours.

The “Text Warp” tool is part of the “Word Art” functionality and hides from our eyes in the “Format” tab of the top menu, which belongs to the “Drawing Tools” section. In order for the “Drawing Tools” section to put all its functionality at our complete disposal, we need to use the option, or the “Create an inscription” tool (we are talking today only about text), which is located on the options ribbon of the “Insert” tab. top menu:

Or you can activate the “Create an inscription” tool through the “Shapes” functionality of the same “Insert” tab of the top menu:

As soon as we select the “Create Label” tool, the cursor will take the form of a crosshair made of two lines. This modification of it is a signal that you can begin to create a working field for the future text. The field we draw will look like a rectangle, which we can stretch horizontally (width) or vertically (height) or make it square. It all depends on what we want to get as a result. That is, it depends on how we want the text to flow around this or that contour, and on editing the text itself.

From the above, one may well get the impression that we will have to puff at the very beginning of work on non-standard form text. But that's not true. We do everything without any stress, enjoying the creative process.

The field is drawn by pressing and holding the left mouse button:

As soon as we release the left mouse button, the field can be considered created:

This created field is immediately captured by transformation markers. By grabbing one or another marker with the mouse, you can stretch the field in height, width and increase its size, maintaining the proportions (any of the corner markers):

A pulsating text input cursor will appear inside the newly created field:

We can start entering text as soon as in the usual way. That is, horizontal and, if necessary or desired, even several lines. Let's do this, limiting ourselves to one line for now:

We don't have to worry about the fact that we have entered text using a font small size, or, on the contrary, written in large font, or in the wrong form at all. We can edit the text entered in the field as we wish. This also applies to future text, which we influence using the “Text Warp” tool, which is located in the “WordArt Styles” section of the “Format” tab:

Now I will increase the size of the font entered in the text field so that it is better visible, and as proof of the possibility of editing it inside the field:

In my case and in this moment The “Format” tab (we can see it as a menu item) is there, but the options contained inside it are not visible to us (picture above). By left-clicking on the name of this tab, I will expand its contents:

Now the functionality of the “Format” tab is completely at our service. As soon as we open the contents of the “Text Warp” by clicking the left mouse button, everything will immediately become clear to us - how we can write text in a circle and other contours, as well as give it other fancy shapes. Let's make this very click and look at functionality of this tool:

In the drop-down list, the tool we need will be listed as the “Convert” option. As soon as we reveal its functionality, it may very well be that, replacing one another, new ones will immediately begin to appear. creative ideas and plans:

We can see how our text in the field changes already when we just hover the mouse cursor over any of the proposed forms:

By clicking the left mouse button we confirm the choice of one form or another.

In most cases, the visibility of the text field created by us with the “Create Label” tool turns out to be very inappropriate, but we will not worry about this, since this very field can be made completely invisible at any time. But we will not rush to make the field invisible, but will deal with the discrepancy that exists.

This discrepancy is expressed in the fact that, having chosen the text shape along the contour of a circle, in the field I received text written along the contour of an ellipse, and not in a circle at all. What's the matter here? Why was there such a discrepancy? The answers to these questions are hidden in the field size, font size and font length (number of words and spacing between words). We can influence the text comprehensively, or we can, for example, only change the size of the font itself or the spacing between words, or only the width and height of the field, etc. It all depends on what we want the text to look like as a result. That is, how the text will flow around an object along its contour.

Let's first work with the field. Let's move the mouse cursor over any of its sides and click with the left mouse button. The cursor will take the form of a crosshair of four small arrows, and the field will be captured by transformation markers:

Let's grab the middle top marker with the mouse and drag the field in height, and then release the mouse button and look at the changes that the text has undergone:

We see that the bend of the text has straightened out very noticeably and has become more like text written in a circle, or rather, in part of a circle - half of it.

Since a circle inscribed inside a square is an ideal circle, and some kind of ellipse (jokingly), then by making the field, even “by eye”, square, we can easily assume that this text is written along the contour of a circle. Let's grab any of the side field markers with the mouse and pull the right side, thus making a square field from a rectangular field. And this is what happened:

As we can see, the text does not close in a circle, and our task, for example, is to make the text flow around the represented closed contour of the circle. The most in a simple way To make the text “closed” is to reduce the margin while maintaining its proportions. As the margin shrinks, the text will rearrange itself to fit into the shrinking margin space according to the circular pattern we have chosen. The text will also behave when we select any other template.

To reduce the size of the field while maintaining the proportions, grab any of the corner markers with the mouse and drag it to the represented center of the field:

We can make stops - release the left mouse button and look at how the text has changed. Then grab the corner marker with the mouse again and continue dragging, reducing the size of the field, keeping to the square shape. As a result, we will get text along the contour of the circle:

With this effect on the text, you need to take into account that the font size will decrease. We see how much smaller the field and text have now become.

Since we are talking more about techniques for working with the “Text Warp” tool, and not about design and design, it is difficult to give advice, because the creative process is very individual. In addition, the tasks assigned to us in the process of studying or working are also very different. I say this because we can close the text by increasing its size:

To change the font size and shape - for example, changing Tahoma to Arial or changing font colors - apply WordArt styles to the text:

or some other effects, for all such changes, just click the left mouse button to select the field itself (the field will be captured by markers):

and then influence the text as we wish. At the same time, we must take into account the fact that after applying some effects and styles, for example WordArt, our beautiful round text will not only become even more beautiful, but will change its location along the contour, and in such a way that we will have to edit it again . Therefore, it makes sense to first apply effects and styles, and then work with the text, giving it the desired shape. But this, of course, is just one of the options, and we act based on our own preferences.

Let's pay attention to the diamond-shaped Pink colour a marker that appears when a field is selected and is superimposed on the left side transformation marker:

By grabbing this pink marker with the mouse and dragging it inside the box, we can also affect the text, changing its outline, size, and starting point for writing. As soon as we grab the marker and start moving it, guide lines will appear inside the field along which the marker-regulator can move, and along with it the text (selected form template):

By dragging the marker just a little bit and then releasing the left mouse button, we can see the changes that the text has undergone:

Then grab the marker with the mouse again and move it a little more and, releasing the left mouse button, look again at what happened to the text:

If we combine the pink adjuster marker with the right side transformation marker, then our text will again become the same, only it will be written differently:

When choosing other options for curving the text, we can see a different initial position of the marker-regulator, and when moving it, completely different lines guiding its movement:

When writing text along the contour of a circle, we don’t have to do everything by eye (transforming the “Create an inscription” field to a square shape). We can temporarily place some external object shaped like a circle, or, using the “Shapes” functionality of the “Insert” top menu tab, draw a circle (circle) and adjust the field using it. We draw a perfect circle (circle) by holding down the Shift key:

It may very well be that someone will find it convenient to make the field transparent even before entering the bizarrely curved text. Let's achieve this 100% transparency of the field.

So, we want to write text along the outline of the circle. By clicking the left mouse button, expand the tab of the top menu “Insert”, and then the contents of the “Shapes” functionality, where we select the “Oval” shape:

As soon as we selected the “Oval” shape, the cursor took the form of a crosshair made of two lines. Let's click Shift key and we will continue to hold it. Then, by clicking and holding the left mouse button, let's start drawing a circle:

When we stop and release the left mouse button, then the figure can be considered drawn. At any time we can increase or decrease the figure by pulling any of the corner markers with the Shift key pressed and held to maintain the proportions of the figure.

The circle is drawn, and you can start creating a field for future text. Select the “Create Label” tool:

If after the circle was drawn we did not click the mouse, then the transformation markers still hold the circle. If the coverage of the circle by the markers has disappeared, then move the mouse cursor over the body of the circle and click the left mouse button so that the markers capture the circle again. Now select the “Create Label” tool again. All we need to do is draw a square selection around the circle. We can start outlining the selection (creating a square field for text) from any corner marker. That is, we draw a field for the future text directly from the circle selection:

So, the text input field has been created:

Now enter the text in the field:

After entering the text, using the tool we already know, let’s make it written along the contour of a circle:

So, the desired template is selected and this is the result:

To my eye, the text along the contour is slightly elongated vertically, since the text input field I created initially turned out to be not quite square. Now let's make the field completely transparent (without white filling or outline).

At the moment, the field is highlighted with transformation handles, which allows us to immediately begin setting 100% transparency and removing the outline. To do this, move the mouse cursor to the top menu of the “Format” tab and select the necessary options sequentially (highlighted in yellow):

The field outline disappeared. Once again we head to the “Shape Styles” section of the “Format” tab of the top menu, but now we use the options of the “Shape Fill” functionality:

When you select No Fill, the white background of the field disappears. In some cases this does not happen. If suddenly, after selecting the “No fill” option, the desired and visible changes did not occur, then we can use other options for filling the figure. We make a choice of a gradient fill, and then an option for other gradient fills:

And a settings window appears in front of us, in which we set the transparency level to 100% by moving the slider:

By clicking the mouse outside the circle, we will remove the selection with markers in order to see how everything looks without extraneous lines (selection):

If we consider that the text is not written in a perfect circle, we can additionally move the side markers of the already invisible field. Let's move the mouse cursor over the text and make a regular click. The field along with the text will be captured by the selection markers, and at this moment the text will change, losing its curvature along the contour of the circle:

Such changes should not shock us. We simply expand the “Format” tab and again give the text the desired shape by selecting the curvature shape along the contour of the circle, and then make the necessary adjustments. Or we can not do this, but immediately begin transforming the field. As soon as we start the transformation by grabbing a marker with the mouse, the text will immediately bend along the contour of the circle, and we will be able to observe its changes.

So, we corrected the field, and along with it, the text. Since in our example the circle played the role of an auxiliary element, now we need to remove it. In order to delete a circle, you must first select it (the circle will be captured by the selection and transformation markers). The text field prevents me from selecting the circle. Although we made the field completely transparent, it has not gone away, but is in the foreground, covering the circle. Move the text box to the side, select the circle, and then delete it.

Let's move the mouse cursor over any side of the field selection and as soon as the cursor takes the form of a crosshair of 4 small arrows, grab the field with the mouse and move it in any direction, thus giving ourselves access to the circle selection:

Now move the mouse cursor over the body of the circle and left-click to select:

The final action in the procedure for getting rid of the circle is to press the Delete key:

Another option for removing a circle is to move the text box to the background, that is, behind the circle. We do this kind of movement with two clicks of the left mouse button. With the first click, select the text field, and with the second click, select the “Move Back” option or the “Send to Back” option. I selected the "Send to Back" option:

The text field is located behind the circle. Now let's do the familiar steps. Let's click on the body of the circle to select:

and then press the Delete key. If we consider that the distance between words, which the arrow points to, is too large:

then we need to slightly reduce the field, maintaining its proportions, so as not to disrupt the ideal curvature of the text along the contour of the circle. Or move the marker-regulator a little:

We can apply not only WordArt styles to our text, but also rotate it, tilt it or lay it down:

You can do all this using the “Shape Effects” option:

Well, our conversation about how to write text in a circle in Word is coming to an end. Having chosen other options for bizarre text curvature, we already know how we can further influence it.

We will talk separately about how to write text along the contour of a circle, consisting of several lines.

With Word and Publisher, you can print poster letters and resize them from 1 to 1638.
For beginners, the difficulty is that it is not clear how to make the letters larger if the standard sizes are limited to font size 72.
This article discusses the issue of increasing standard size font, as well as the question of how to create a WordArt title.

If you are interested in Word lessons, I also recommend that you read the questions on how to insert pictures and diagrams.

How to print capital letters

1. Set the scale smaller because we need to see the sheets and the letters on them in order to edit the inscription.
1.1. In Word 2010, in the status bar we find the scale tool.
Use the slider or click the minus button to reduce the sheet size.

tool - scale


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1.2. In Word 2003, the scale can be set in two ways - by selecting the desired one in the toolbar.

(Figure 2)

The second way is to click "View" / "Scale"

(Figure 3)

(Figure 4)
After we have chosen the scale, we can see several sheets at once and how the inscription will look.

2. Change the size of the letters.

If you don't know how to increase the letter size (more than 72pt), then it's quite simple.
We erase what is written in the “Font Size” window:
— place the cursor inside the “Font Size” window;
— delete the number indicating the old size using the backspace or delete key;
— print the new font size, remembering that the upper limit is the number 1938 and if you type 1939, the program will report an error.
2.1. In word 2010, go to the “Home” tab, erase the old font size and type 72, and then press Enter.


(Figure 5)

2.2. In word 3003 you also need to erase the font.

(Figure 6)

Here's what I got.


(Figure 7)

Working with WordArt

This feature is not available in Word 2010, but is present in Publisher, where the inscription can be printed and copied into Word.

3. To make WordArt text, turn on the drawing panel in Word 2003; to do this, click “View” / “Toolbar” / “Drawing”. Now click on the letter A in the WordArt panel and select a font for the ad text.

(Figure 8)

And now you can write the text in full or in parts...


(Figure 9)

4. After we have received part of the text, we need to move it, move it, but it won’t work that easily - we will have to change the settings of the WordArt object. To do this, select the text, right-click on the selected object and select “Format WordArt Object” in the window that appears.


(Figure 10)

5. Then in the window that appears, we must go to the “Position” tab and select “By contour”, now we can freely move and enlarge our object.

Go to the Position tab and select Along contour

(Figure 11)

Conclusion

If you are going to print an inscription for a poster in Word, then this can be done using regular text enlarged in size and WordArt text.
And not always new program has better opportunities and the outdated word program can type in the same way, you just need to know the location of the tools.
Good luck with your poster.

The question of how to make a stencil in Microsoft Word interests many users. The problem is that finding a sane answer to it on the Internet is not so easy. If you are interested in this topic, you have come to the right place, but first, let's figure out what a stencil is.

A stencil is a “perforated plate,” at least that is the meaning of the word exactly translated from Italian. We will briefly talk about how to make such a “plate” in the second half of this article, and immediately below we will share with you how to create the basis for a traditional stencil in Word.

If you are ready to get seriously confused and use your imagination at the same time, you can easily use any font provided in the standard set of the program to create a stencil. The main thing, when it is printed on paper, is to make jumpers - places that will not be cut out in the letters limited by the outline.

Actually, if you are ready to sweat so much over the stencil, it is not clear why you need our instructions, since you have all MS Word fonts at your disposal. Choose the one you like, write a word or type the alphabet and print it on a printer, and then cut them along the contour, not forgetting the jumpers.

If you are not ready to spend so much effort, time and energy and a classic-looking stencil suits you quite well, our task is to find, download and install that same classic stencil font. We are ready to save you from a grueling search - we found everything ourselves.

The Trafaret Kit Transparent font completely imitates the good old Soviet TS-1 stencils with one pleasant bonus - in addition to the Russian language, it also contains English, as well as a number of other characters not present in the original. You can download it from the author's website.

Setting the font

In order for the font you downloaded to appear in Word, you must first install it on the system. Actually, after this it will automatically appear in the program. You can learn how to do this from our article.

Creating a stencil base

Select Trafaret Kit Transparent from the list of fonts available in Word and create the desired inscription in it. If you need an alphabet stencil, write the alphabet on the document page. Other symbols can be added as needed.

The standard portrait orientation of a sheet in Word is not the most suitable solution for creating a stencil. It will look more familiar on a landscape page. Our instructions will help you change the position of the page.

Now the text needs to be formatted. Set the appropriate size, select the appropriate position on the page, and provide sufficient padding and spacing, both between letters and between words. Our instructions will help you do all this.

Perhaps the standard A4 sheet format will not be enough for you. If you want to change it to a larger one (A3, for example), our article will help you do this.

Note: When changing the sheet format, do not forget to change the font size and related parameters accordingly. No less important in this case are the capabilities of the printer on which the stencil will be printed - support for the selected paper format is required.

Stencil printing

Having written the alphabet or inscription and formatted this text, you can safely proceed to printing the document. If you don't know how to do this yet, be sure to read our instructions.

Creating a stencil

As you understand, there is practically no sense in a stencil printed on a regular piece of paper. It can hardly be used more than once. That is why the printed page with the base for the stencil needs to be “strengthened”. To do this you will need the following:

  • Cardboard or polymer film;
  • carbon copy;
  • Scissors;
  • Shoemaker or stationery knife;
  • Pen or pencil;
  • Board;
  • Laminator (optional).

The printed text must be transferred to cardboard or plastic. In the case of transferring to cardboard, ordinary carbon paper (copy paper) will help to do this. You simply need to place the page with the stencil on the cardboard, placing carbon paper between them, and then trace the outline of the letters with a pencil or pen. If you don't have carbon paper, you can press the outlines of the letters with a pen. The same can be done with transparent plastic.

And yet, with transparent plastic it is more convenient, and it would simply be more correct to do it a little differently. Place a sheet of plastic on top of the stencil page and trace the outline of the letters with a pen.

After the stencil base created in Word is transferred to cardboard or plastic, all that remains is to cut out the empty spaces using scissors or a knife. The main thing is to do it strictly along the line. It is not difficult to move the knife along the edge of the letter, but the scissors must initially be “driven” into the place that will be cut, but not into the edge itself. It is better to cut plastic with a sharp knife, after placing it on a strong board.

If you have a laminator on hand, the printed sheet of paper with the stencil base can be laminated. Having done this, cut out the letters along the outline with a stationery knife or scissors.

When creating a stencil in Word, especially if it is an alphabet, try to make the distance between the letters (on all sides) no less than their width and height. If this is not critical for the presentation of the text, the distance can be made a little larger.

If to create a stencil you did not use the Trafaret Kit Transparent font we suggested, but any other (not stencil) presented in the standard Word set, let us remind you once again, do not forget about the jumpers in the letters. For letters whose outline is limited by internal space (an obvious example is the letters “O” and “B”, the number “8”), there must be at least two such jumpers.

That's all, now you know not only how to make a base for a stencil in Word, but also how to make a full-fledged, dense stencil with your own hands.