text joe_2 6/23/2007 1:05:00 PM I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour I am using XP and Publisher 2003. Any help would be much appreciated. joe_2

Re: text "Shauna Kelly" <ShaunaKelly[ at ]SendNoSpamToShaunaKelly.com> 6/23/2007 1:19:20 PM Hi Joe This is a newsgroup about Microsoft Word. If you're using Publisher, I suggest you ask your question in a Publisher newsgroup. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "joe_2" <joe_2[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:832CAB54-86D1-4FAA-803B-51AA7E0DC2F2[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour >I > am using XP and Publisher 2003. > Any help would be much appreciated. > joe_2

Re: text CyberTaz <onlygeneraltaz1[ at ]com.cast.net> 6/23/2007 1:53:12 PM Well, you've managed to get into the New User's group for MS Word, not a Publisher group :) but the answer will be the same there... I take from your post that you are using a font by the name of Alfredo Heavy Hollow and that this is apparently an "outline" font (I'm not familiar with this font). What you want to do is fill the "hollow" with a color without affecting the character outline. What you're attempting to do can't be accomplished in Word or Publisher - at least with regard to body text. You need a font editor or graphic design program. What might work for you is to create a WordArt object using that font. You may be able to get the effect you want, but it will be handled as a graphic object, not as body text. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/23/07 9:05 AM, in article 832CAB54-86D1-4FAA-803B-51AA7E0DC2F2[ at ]microsoft.com, "joe_2" <joe_2[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour I > am using XP and Publisher 2003. > Any help would be much appreciated. > joe_2

Re: text "Mary Sauer" <mary-sauer[ at ]mycolumbus.rr.com> 6/23/2007 4:18:07 PM Type your phrase in WordArt, copy, paste special as a Windows Metafile, ungroup. You can re-color the letters and the outlines. When you paste as a .wmf there will be four layers of type with a ungrouped hollow font. Keep that in mind. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "joe_2" <joe_2[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:832CAB54-86D1-4FAA-803B-51AA7E0DC2F2[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour I > am using XP and Publisher 2003. > Any help would be much appreciated. > joe_2

Re: text "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotNOSPAMmail.com> 6/23/2007 4:50:21 PM I would use a graphics program, spell out whatever it is you want colored, fill the letters, then save as a graphic. Insert that graphic wherever you want. -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "joe_2" <joe_2[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:832CAB54-86D1-4FAA-803B-51AA7E0DC2F2[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour >I > am using XP and Publisher 2003. > Any help would be much appreciated. > joe_2

RE: text Kaja 6/26/2007 2:17:01 PM Iam pretty sure this will solve your problem. If you dont have the drawing toolbar on the bottom of your screen then go to to tools,options,toolbars and check drawing toolbar Then click on the A symbol that says "word art" This gives you some nice styles and two are transparent. Then to fill it with color. Go to fill effects (to the left of the pencil symbol on the drawing toolbar).on the drawing toolbar and click the arrow next to it. A pallete of color will come up. You can also select more fill effects by selecting fill effects from the color pallete. I think this will do the trick. Let me know how it worked. You can also draw shapes with autoshapes and color them this way Best regsrds, Kaja "joe_2" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour I > am using XP and Publisher 2003. > Any help would be much appreciated. > joe_2

Re: text "Mary Sauer" <mary-sauer[ at ]mycolumbus.rr.com> 6/26/2007 2:55:36 PM Kaja, Your method will not work with hollow letters. -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Kaja" <Kaja[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3F349A8C-7F19-4C7D-9C4F-EE0D9B76AF32[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Iam pretty sure this will solve your problem. If you dont have the drawing > toolbar on the bottom of your screen then go to to tools,options,toolbars and > check drawing toolbar Then click on the A symbol that says "word art" This > gives you some nice styles and two are transparent. Then to fill it with > color. Go to fill effects (to the left of the pencil symbol on the drawing > toolbar).on the drawing toolbar and click the arrow next to it. A pallete of > color will come up. You can also select more fill effects by selecting fill > effects from the color pallete. I think this will do the trick. Let me know > how it worked. You can also draw shapes with autoshapes and color them this > way > Best regsrds, > Kaja > > "joe_2" wrote: > >> I am trying to write text Alfredo Heavy Hollow and then fill with a colour I >> am using XP and Publisher 2003. >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> joe_2