in this lesson we're going to learn how
we can add some pizzazz to our
publications by adding border art and
word art we're here with our cityville
elementary school newsletter and I think
we need to add some border art to the
back page of our newsletter let's go
ahead and move to page two let's come
down to the bottom of the screen and
select the page 2 icon and here we are
on the back page I'd like to go ahead
and delete this red line that is
separating the top section from the
bottom section let's select that red
line and choose delete from our keyboard
and we're going to add a border around
the bottom section of our newsletter of
course borders can be added around an
entire page around an object around the
text box wherever you like but for our
purposes we're going to put the border
art around the entire bottom section in
order to do that let's go over to our
objects tool bar and select the
rectangle icon let's go back to our
publication as you can see we have two
lines that look like a cross as our
cursor now we're going to click our
mouse we're going to drag this we're
going to hold it down and drag it as we
encase the entire bottom section release
the mouse as you can see we have a
rectangle around our bottom section we
can move this a little bit to adjust it
resize it if we need to there we go
resize it a little bit at the bottom now
in order to turn our rectangle into
actual border art let's head up to the
format selection from our main menu
click on format and let's go down and
select auto shape the format auto shape
dialog box appears and we are on the
colors and lines tab and we're going to
come down and select the border art
button go ahead and click on that and
now our border art dialog box appears as
you can see we have lots of different
available borders to choose from we have
apples we have balloons we have candy
corn we have bars clocks confetti all
sorts of colorful borders to choose from
I don't think I wanting anything quite
so colorful or quite so large for our
publication let's keep looking there are
flowers and pumpkins here we have some
stars I see some shadowed stars here I
think I really like that when I think
that will go well with our school
newsletter in order to select the Stars
let's click on the ok button and that
brings us back to our format auto shape
dialog box and let's select ok once
again now you can see that we have a
star border around the bottom section of
our newsletter I think that looks really
great
in addition to border art we can add
word art to enhance our publications
let's add some word art to this back
page as well let's head over to our
objects tool bar again and we're going
to select the insert word art icon our
word art gallery dialog box appears and
you can see that we have lots of
different styles of word art I think I
would like to choose this yellow the
bright yellow word art down here let's
click on that and then select ok now our
edit word art text dialog box appears we
can insert our own text we're going to
make ours our school motto which is we
believe as you can see we can also
change the font of our word art text the
size we could make it bold or italics
I'm going to leave those set just as
they are I like it in Arial black and
we're going to select ok now we have our
word art and we can move it around we
can resize it
as you see we also have a word art
toolbar that has appeared let's explore
some of the options on this the first
icon on the toolbar is our insert word
art icon you can insert word art from
this toolbar but I prefer to do it from
the objects tool bar we can also edit
our text and i think i'd like to go
ahead and tweak our text just a little
bit so let's select the edit text icon
and i'd like to put dot dot dot after
our school motto select ok I think that
looks much better back to our word art
toolbar we can explore the word art
gallery again or we can format our word
art let's see what options are available
under the format icon our format word
art dialog box appears as you can see
we're on the colors and lines tab and we
can change the color of our word art I
think I'd like our word art to be red
let's click on red we can also change
the line color we can change the line
weight we're going to leave those as
they are for right now and we're going
to select ok I think our word art looks
much better in red another one of the
options on our word art toolbar is to
change the word art shape let's click on
that icon to see what that's all about
as you see we have lots of different
shapes to choose from for our word art
we could curve up curve down I
personally like this can up shape it
looks sort of like a fat rainbow let's
click on that there we go now we have
our word art and our border art
again you're welcome to explore any of
these other options on your own as with
anything I really think moderation is
the key when it comes to word art and
borders but I do think that the star
boarder and the word art that we've
added to this backpage have really given
our newsletter some extra pizzazz you
can continue to explore borders and word
art and add a little pizzazz to your own
publications