Can I control character overlap? Sesquipedalian Sam <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> 11/21/2008 8:33:29 PM I want to create a title with the characters (letters) in different colors and overlapping. I am able to get the overlap using the character spacing, but each letter overlaps the previous one. I would like to have the first overlap the second and so on. Is there a way to do that?

Re: Can I control character overlap? "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> 11/21/2008 11:00:19 PM Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character spacing. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> wrote in message news:el6ei45kcqa5bp5aqbn17sca9li5ureoan[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] >I want to create a title with the characters (letters) in different > colors and overlapping. I am able to get the overlap using the > character spacing, but each letter overlaps the previous one. I would > like to have the first overlap the second and so on. > > Is there a way to do that?

Re: Can I control character overlap? Sesquipedalian Sam <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> 11/21/2008 11:17:40 PM On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:00:19 -0000, "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character spacing. That's what I did, as I said. The result is that letter #2 overlays letter #1 and I want it the other way around. If my text string is ABCDE, I want the B to be behind the A, the C behind the B, and so on. The result that I am getting is that the B is on top of the A, the C is on top of the B, and so on.

Re: Can I control character overlap? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 11/21/2008 11:49:55 PM Ideally, this would be done in a graphics app. To achieve it in Word, you're going to have to use individual WordArt objects (or, at the very least, multiple overlapping text boxes). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> wrote in message news:m7gei4tu3uldvno50vme5k1pb305sfr32a[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:00:19 -0000, "Terry Farrell" > <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote: > >>Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character >>spacing. > > That's what I did, as I said. The result is that letter #2 overlays > letter #1 and I want it the other way around. > > If my text string is ABCDE, I want the B to be behind the A, the C > behind the B, and so on. The result that I am getting is that the B is > on top of the A, the C is on top of the B, and so on. >

Re: Can I control character overlap? "Klaus Linke" <info[ at ]fotosatz-kaufmann.de> 11/21/2008 11:51:34 PM "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I want to create a title with the characters (letters) in different > colors and overlapping. I am able to get the overlap using the > character spacing, but each letter overlaps the previous one. I would > like to have the first overlap the second and so on. > > Is there a way to do that? Another way would be to use ADVANCE fields. Greetings, Klaus

Re: Can I control character overlap? "Klaus Linke" <info[ at ]fotosatz-kaufmann.de> 11/22/2008 12:21:06 AM [Quoted Text] > Another way would be to use ADVANCE fields. ....say, { advance \x2 }b{ advance \x0 }a Klaus

Re: Can I control character overlap? "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> 11/22/2008 10:04:24 AM Klaus has given you a solution for Word, but Suzanne is correct in that perhaps you need something a little more elaborate than Word can so and a graphics app would be better. You can save it as a jpeg and insert it into Word. Terry "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> wrote in message news:m7gei4tu3uldvno50vme5k1pb305sfr32a[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:00:19 -0000, "Terry Farrell" > <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote: > >>Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character >>spacing. > > That's what I did, as I said. The result is that letter #2 overlays > letter #1 and I want it the other way around. > > If my text string is ABCDE, I want the B to be behind the A, the C > behind the B, and so on. The result that I am getting is that the B is > on top of the A, the C is on top of the B, and so on.

Re: Can I control character overlap? Sesquipedalian Sam <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> 11/23/2008 1:31:11 AM On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:04:24 -0000, "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > >Klaus has given you a solution for Word, but Suzanne is correct in that >perhaps you need something a little more elaborate than Word can so and a >graphics app would be better. You can save it as a jpeg and insert it into >Word. > >Terry > >"Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> wrote in message >news:m7gei4tu3uldvno50vme5k1pb305sfr32a[ at ]4ax.com... >> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:00:19 -0000, "Terry Farrell" >> <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote: >> >>>Select a character, then use Format, Font and reduce the character >>>spacing. >> >> That's what I did, as I said. The result is that letter #2 overlays >> letter #1 and I want it the other way around. >> >> If my text string is ABCDE, I want the B to be behind the A, the C >> behind the B, and so on. The result that I am getting is that the B is >> on top of the A, the C is on top of the B, and so on. I ended up using Visio. Thanks.

Re: Can I control character overlap? Sesquipedalian Sam <sesquipod[ at ]nowhere.noway> 11/23/2008 1:32:10 AM On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:21:06 +0100, "Klaus Linke" <info[ at ]fotosatz-kaufmann.de> wrote: [Quoted Text] >> Another way would be to use ADVANCE fields. > >...say, >{ advance \x2 }b{ advance \x0 }a > >Klaus Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about advance. Since I was doing quite a few of these, that looked a bit too complicated.