Tall narrow letters

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Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The overall
length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a little taller
(by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought about putting the
text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't stretch the letters.
I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I don't want to use the fonts
there. The font that I must use is AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.
 
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word and
I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to accept
what I have if it can't be done in Word.

JoAnn Paules said:
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.
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Try this:

Get them normal size, take a screenshot (printscreen) and then paste this
back in. Crop it so you only see your letters, and then strech them.

It's not a neat solution, and depending on the quality of the image, may not
be ideal, but without a graphics package, it's probably the best you'll do.

Tom.

Tosca said:
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word and
I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to accept
what I have if it can't be done in Word.

JoAnn Paules said:
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.
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On the Character Spacing tab of the Format | Font dialog is a Scale setting.
You need to think laterally to make this work, however, since it doesn't
make letters taller or shorter, only wider or narrower. So you will need to
increase the font size, then decrease the scale to less than 100% (making
the letters narrower).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Suzanne - that's perfect. As you implied, it took a bit of fiddling and
measuring the length of the line against the new one by dragging the right
hand tab setting to the left but I've managed it. Yet another little tip
for my "black book"!

Best wishes.
 
I've yet to see a computer that didn't have some sort of a graphics program.
Don't you have Picture It! or something like that?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word
and I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to
accept what I have if it can't be done in Word.

JoAnn Paules said:
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.
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Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The problem
about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.
 
FWIW, fonts available in Word will be available in all Windows programs.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

Tosca said:
Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The problem
about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.
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Suzanne

All Windows programs, yes, but why not Word Art? Any way to add fonts to
that?



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
FWIW, fonts available in Word will be available in all Windows programs.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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so
all may benefit.
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Picture It! is the graphics program that comes (or used to) with Works
Suite. Fonts would not have been an issue.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Hi JoAnn

I've never heard of Picture It! but I've managed to do what I need using
Suzanne's tip which has allowed me to use the font that I need. The
problem about using other software is that the font may not be available.

Thank you for the suggestion.
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I think Word 95 or 97 was the last release that had a limited set of
fonts for WordArt. All the recent releases will use any installed
TrueType font. There's a font selection dropdown in the Edit WordArt
Text dialog.
 
That's what I thought. So then why the problem with the original post in
this thread? If the fonts that are available in Word are also available in
Word Art, then Word Art would have been the perfect solution to this issue.
Yes? No?
 
I can't speak for Tosca's requirements, but if it's necessary to match
the overall appearance of a regular font except for the letter height,
WordArt can't do it.

For example, try inserting some ordinary text in 24 pt Times New Roman
with no other formatting. Now try to match it with the same phrase in
WordArt, with the same stroke weight, width, and general appearance
but 120% of the height. You'll find that WordArt's "regular" stroke
weight is much heavier, equal to or more than that of TNR's bold face,
and the sharp corners are all rounded off. It barely looks like the
same font.

An added annoyance is that WordArt's sizes are wildly out of line.
Before any adjustments, the WordArt is about 30% wider and *four times
the height* of the regular text it claims as equivalent.
 
Sure you do. If you have Windows [Any version], you have MS paint. Crude
but effective for this.
John


Tosca said:
Thank you. The font that I'd like to use is the one that I have in Word
and I don't have a graphics program but I'll look into it. I may have to
accept what I have if it can't be done in Word.

JoAnn Paules said:
I'd use a graphics program to do it, not a word processing one.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Tosca said:
Hi everyone

I have Word 2003 and have a line of text which I need to print. The
overall length of the line is fine but I need to make the letters a
little taller (by between 30 and 50%). Is this possible? I thought
about putting the text into a text box and stretching it, but it doesn't
stretch the letters. I suspect that I could do it with Word Art but I
don't want to use the fonts there. The font that I must use is
AladdinExpanded.

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks for your time.
Click to expand...
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WordArt has used TrueType fonts since Word 6.0, but only TrueType (no
PostScript). Where the real crunch came, though, was in Word 97 (IIRC), when
WordArt became part of Word's drawing tools (rather than a separate applet).
At that point, as JoAnn says, it became virtually impossible to make WordArt
replicate "ordinary" text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Thank you - I'd no idea that was the case! I suspected that they would be
common to the MS Office series but not available to all Windows programs.
 
I tried WordArt but couldn't get it to do exactly what I wanted with the
font as it was distorted.
 
Fonts are installed in the Windows Fonts folder; they are available to all
Windows programs. Users often ask, "How do I install fonts in Word," but in
fact you don't install them in Word but in Windows.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.
 
Thank you for this information.

If I have access to a second PC, which has a font in this directory which
isn't on my primary PC, can I simply copy the appropriate font from
C:\Windows\Fonts, or isn't it as simple as that?
 
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