Adding outline effect around font

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I have white font text on a dark background and want to
have an outline/border of each letter to show up. How do
I do that?
 
Hi,

I'd go for Word Art, as you can have a different line colour to the fill
colour. Would that help? Otherwise, you may have to go to an image editing
program.

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I have white font text on a dark background and want to
have an outline/border of each letter to show up. How do
I do that?
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Glenn's suggestions are good ones. If you don't have to do a lot of this, you
can also do something like this:

- Create your text, assign it the outline color you want.
- Duplicate it.
- Duplicate it again and assign it the color you really want for the text.

Adjust the offsets of the first two bits of text so that one is slightly
up/left and one is slightly down/right from the topmost bit of text.

Not a real outline, but it's generally enough to give you a nice degree of
separation from the background.
 
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Hello,

Although PowerPoint for the Macintosh has an Outline format option for
text, the same is not true for PowerPoint for Windows. PowerPoint does have
both Shadow and Emboss text formatting which might get you close to what
you are looking for.

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