Click on New Slide button once again.

For the final slide choose the third slide in the third row – Blank.

Now we’ll use some Text Art. In the Drawing Bar, which should be open, find a "blue A" that is slightly tilted (like the one on the right). When you pass your cursor over this "button," it will indicate: insert WordArt. If the Drawing Bar is not available, click-on View in the Menu Bar, then click-on Toolbars and select Drawing by clicking-on it. Click-on the Insert WordArt button. The following WordArt Gallery menu screen will appear. Select one of the WordArt patterns by clicking on it. Next, click-on OK.

The following Edit WordArt Text screen will appear. Where the screen indicates Your Text Here, type-in: Enjoy your Sandwich. Select a different font and size, if you desire, then click-on OK.

You will return to Slide 8 and see the WordArt you created. You use the "grabbers" (little squares on the corners) to make the text larger. You may also move your text as you desire.

If you want to change the "look" of your WordArt, you’ll need to be able to see the WordArt toolbar. It looks like the toolbar below.

 

Most of the time the toolbar appears when you click on OK and the WordArt you selected appears. If the toolbar does not appear, point to the center of the WordArt and click the RIGHT mouse button. A WordArt drop down screen will appear. A choice will be: Show WordArt toolbar. Click on this choice and the toolbar will appear.

You may click-on the different "buttons" to edit your text. We’ll get into this more on the next page.

Insert WordArt and Edit WordArt Text

Starting from the left you already know what the first two buttons will do. The blue A will allow you to add another WordArt. The Edit Text button will allow you to change the text in your WordArt.

If, for some reason, you accidentally "click-away" from your WordArt, you’ll loose the grabbers and your WordArt toolbar. Not a big deal. To "activate" both, simply place the cursor over the WordArt and click the left button on the WordArt. Both will re-appear.

The third button in from the left will bring up the WordArt Gallery again. If you do not like the WordArt "style" you chose, you can choose another.

The fourth button in from the left will allow you to change a number of "things" in WordArt, and in other PowerPoint features. When you click on this button the menu screen to the left will appear.

Notice that there are a number of "tabs" at the top of the menu. You can click- on the tabs and get a "feel" for what each will do. We’ll just click-on the Color choice for now (see arrow to the left).

 

When you click-on Color the drop down menu to the left will appear. We’ll work with a similar menu later on. For now, just move your cursor down to More Colors and click on it. The Colors menus will appear similar to the one below.

There are a lot of really unique features with the color palettes in Microsoft software. The Custom color pallet that you see on the left has two "big" features. The first feature is that you can click anywhere in the pallet and the color in the area where you click will be shown in the lower right corner. After you have selected a color you can "drag" the small arrow "triangle" on the right of the screen up and down to lighten or darken the color you chose. We’ve marked where you can click and the "up and down" triangle with arrows in the diagram on the left. Select a color and give it a try.

Once you have selected a color, click-on OK. You will see the changes in your WordArt.

When you click-on the fifth button from the left, it has an "Abc" on it, the image at the right will drop down. If you would like to change the shape of your WordArt text to a new shape, click-on one of the shapes in the choices chart to the right. You will see your WordArt change to that shape. Give it a try.

 

When you choose the sixth button from the left – it will indicate Free Rotate. When you click-on it you will see small green circles at the four corners of your WordArt image. When you move your cursor off the toolbar you will notice that the cursor has changed to look like the toolbar button – a small circle with an arrow. When you place the circle-arrow "around" one of the corner green dots and hold down the left mouse button, and drag, you will notice that your whole WordArt will rotate as much as you want it to. Give this a try.

The last four buttons on the right adjust text spacing, alignment, etc. Work with them, as you desire.

When you have finished your editing, you can close the WordArt edit toolbar by clicking-on the little "X." in the upper right corner of the toolbar.