TEXT IN DOTTED LINES, IS IT POSSIBLE?

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FARAZ QURESHI

I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some letters.
Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?
 
If you Google for Dotted Line Font, you should find what you are looking
for.

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Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as if
it was dotted. :-)
 
An especially useful suggestion if the child is learning a non-roman
alphabet (as FQ's name suggests is possible), where such resources may
not be available.

Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as if
it was dotted.  :-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"




I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some letters.
Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?

Best Regards,
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That was one of those things that just popped into my mind when I read the
question. :-)

(Every squirrel finds a nut now and then.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


An especially useful suggestion if the child is learning a non-roman
alphabet (as FQ's name suggests is possible), where such resources may
not be available.

Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as
if
it was dotted. :-)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"




I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some
letters.
Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?

Best Regards,
FARAZ A. QURESHI- Hide quoted text -
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To add to JoAnn's suggestion: << Try using a simple font, like Arial, make
the letters 72 pts (or larger), and then change them from black to a light
color (for example, grey, pink, yellow, light blue). Your child could trace
the letter just as easily as if it was dotted. >>

You can also add the outline effect to the letters. Goto: Format > Font and
click "outline."

Steven Craig Miller
 
I've often wondered to what extent users actually use the Outline, Emboss,
Engrave, and Shadow effects for text (much less the various blinking effects
and marching ants and such*). But your suggestion suggests to me that adding
"broken" or "dotted" as a text effect would be quite useful.

*I do know at least one MVP who formats Normal style as bright pink with
marching ants so it is easy to tell when she has missed applying a specific
paragraph style to any text. <g>
 
Even if she's so young a squirrel that she never heard of WordStar --
I think it came with my first DOS computer. (My first computer was a
Keypro 4/84, which came with PerfectWriter -- which could actually do
a few things that no modern word processor can.)

That was one of those things that just popped into my mind when I read the
question.  :-)

(Every squirrel finds a nut now and then.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


An especially useful suggestion if the child is learning a non-roman
alphabet (as FQ's name suggests is possible), where such resources may
not be available.

Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as
if
it was dotted. :-)
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
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How can she stand to even look at bright pink? I had to do a global
change of someone's highlighting once because they used that color and
it hurt my eyes to have it on the screen. (Don't remember how, since
you can't Find/Replace highlight color.)
 
: << How can she stand to even look at bright pink? >>

Suzanne will correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed that was the point!
(Namely, she wasn't going to use the "Normal" style in her documents.)

Steven Craig Miller
 
Heard of WordStar but my first version of a word processor was Word 2.0 in
DOS. I was already well past the age of majority. ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



Even if she's so young a squirrel that she never heard of WordStar --
I think it came with my first DOS computer. (My first computer was a
Keypro 4/84, which came with PerfectWriter -- which could actually do
a few things that no modern word processor can.)

That was one of those things that just popped into my mind when I read the
question. :-)

(Every squirrel finds a nut now and then.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


An especially useful suggestion if the child is learning a non-roman
alphabet (as FQ's name suggests is possible), where such resources may
not be available.

Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or
larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey,
pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as
if
it was dotted. :-)
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
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Well look in the format and find the background and other things in there.
You should find them.... Good Luck!
 

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