Kerning Question

[mike]

I am typing a word using a font size of 150 and a font type of Subway.
The word is in uppercase. I want to bring the letters together so there
is some overlap with adjoining letters within the word. I am using
Format > Font > Character Spacing > Spacing > Condensed > By > I then
enter a point size. I fool with the point size until Some of the
letters are positioned as I want them. My problem is that I may be
happy with 20 point for some letters but want to move other letters
closer. I can not determine how I select individual letters and just
have them move closer to each other. It seems that if I just select 2
letters and change the Condensed By value to 30 that the new value is
applied to the entire word and I have too much overlap between the
letters outside of those selected.
Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure that you don't have "When selecting, automatically select whole
word" enabled on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. Also note that the spacing
you apply to a single character affects how close it is to the following
one. If you select two characters, then you're affecting the spacing of the
second one as well as the first. But really, for what you're apparently
trying to do, you'd be much better off with a drawing program that allows
you to treat text as graphics and individual letters as objects.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[mike]

Suzanne,
Thank you for your help. I have it working now. You are right I
probably should use a graphics package. The only one I have on my
computer is Paint and the few times I tried using it I got very
frustrated. That is probably my fault not Paints. For now Word is the
path of least resistance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Paint is a paint/photo editing program; for this you need a drawing program.
You'd probably have better luck using WordArt.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[mike]

Suzanne,
What book would you recommend to help learn Word Art. I am using MS
Word 2K. I have a book from Microsoft Press titled Running MS Word
2000. It only devotes about 6 pages to WordArt. I am sure there is more
to it than that.
Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you can find 6 pages on WordArt, it's more than I've ever seen.
Everything I know has been learned by trial-and-error. But you might see if
the Microsoft Web site has anything. There's a little bit in Word's Help.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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