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• Is there anything better than a Text Box when trying to write colored text onto a .jpg image in a Word document? I'm apartment-hunting, and using a Word document to compile my notes. The document describes many different apartment communities; each apartment community describes many different floor plans. At this point in my search, the document contains hundreds of floor plans. It takes several seconds to analyze a given floor plan. (Where's the front door? Where's the master bedroom? The guest room? And so on.) Every time I review the document, I don't want to re-analyze each floor plan. So, I have put a big red arrow near the front door on every floor plan. The bedrooms, however, are a problem. I don't want to introduce more symbols. Instead, I want to write the word "Master" over the room that I think is the master bedroom, and the word "Guest" over the guest bedroom. Since each floor plan is a .jpg image, the only way I can do this is to use a Text Box. This works, to a degree. But there are two annoying problems:- (1) The part of the Text Box that I consider to be the background obscures anything underneath it. (I don't think there's any way to make the background transparent.) (2) It seems that the text needs a large 'border' area around it. When I try to shrink the box in order to avoid wasting a lot of white space around the text, the text attempts to wrap, and disappears downward, inside the box. I'm looking for something better than a Text Box, or a way to make the back- ground of the Text Box transparent, or a way to reduce the border space around the text. Any ideas?

• Answer:

  Hi Rambler, I?ve provided you with two ways to achieve your goal, using 1)Paint, and 2) Word. You can practice with both programs to see which is easiest for your purposes. Let?s start with Paint first. Click your ?Start? bar, then ?All Programs? then go to ?All Programs?. Move to ?Accessories? (should be the first listing under ?All Programs?). In the list under ?Accessories? you will find ?Paint? Go to ?File? and ?Open? to import your floor plan graphic. At the end of your Paint toolbar, you will notice 2 identical tool icons, with a cylinder and a circle). Both are for placing text on a graphic. The first icon places a solid background under the text, the kind you said you wanted to avoid. The second icon (actually the last) is a text icon with a transparent background. To make the text visible on your floor plan, you can change the color and the size of the text, in Paint, by selecting font size in the Font Tool bar that appears once you select the text tool. To change the color, before you select the text tool, click on the desired color. Now, let?s address the text box problem. Almost all graphics programs use a text box for entering text. To avoid the text wrapping, draw your text box larger than your anticipated need. In most programs you can enlarge the text box by dragging the edge. Move your cursor around the box line till you see a double headed arrow, and pull the box to the right, or down, as needed. You may need to practice enlarging the text box a few times to get the 'hang of it'. By using the ?clear text box? tool, the last icon in Paint, you can make a very large text box, larger than you think you will need, as there will be no solid background when you are done. When you are finished, save the .jpg , open Word, and insert the graphic, with the text already in place! Don?t forget the ?Undo? button, found under the ?Edit? tab on your toolbar in Paint. In Word, the ?Undo? button is indicated by a curved bent arrow button on the toolbar, and also under ?Edit?, Undo. This can delete a multitude of errors while experimenting. You can also use the following method, to work from within Word. Have your graphic already placed in the Word document. Next, go to ?Insert?, select ?Picture? and select ?Word Art?. (You may need to click on the two downward pointing arrows at the bottom of the ?Insert? menu to see all of your options). Word Art presents you with a pop up for typing your text. To save time, you can select pre-configured colors and shapes of text. The Word Art text leaves a transparent background, that will not obscure your graphic. This is a quick and dirty way of labeling your floor plans, as you have little formatting to do. While you have some Word Art text selected, notice the ?handles? all around the text. These handles allow you the ability to stretch the box longer or higher, as well as minimize the text. Move your cursor to the middle of the text and you?ll see a four-headed arrow to appear. This tool allows you to grab the text and move it around. When the handles are present, a menu appears that offers you the ability to rotate this text, along with other formatting options. Here is a Paint tutorial. Click the tools in the Paint window to learn more about each tool. http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/99/paint/paint.htm A more ?wordy? Paint tutorial: http://www.bittybitznpieces.com/LORAINESMSPAINTTIPS.htm Here is a Word Art tutorial that shows each menu and screen: http://www.geocities.com/~prof_al/WORD/wordart2000.html Additionally, if you have a graphics program that allows you to save with a transparent background (Like Corel Paint Shop Pro), you could make a graphic of each word you use, and save them as a .jpg. Once they are saved, you could select the word ?bedroom? and insert it on top of your floor plan. I?m sure that you can achieve your goal using one or both of these methods. Please request an Answer Clarification, before rating, is any part of my answer is unclear. Sincerely, Crabcakes Search Terms ============ MS Word word art + tutorial MS Paint tutorial Experience with programs