15. Using Advanced Text Features

At first glance, Word’s advanced text features may look like window-dressing, but they’re actually very useful. This chapter shows you how to create and format text boxes and WordArt, and how to address and print envelopes.

If you thought we’d said everything that could possibly be said about text, well...I’m sorry. There’s more. Actually, there’s a lot more, and this chapter introduces three advanced text tools that you may not be able to live without.

The following sections introduce you to text boxes, which act like minidocuments within a larger Word document. You can use them to add special features to a document, or as a layout tool to create newsletters and other fancy documents. After you master text ...

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