Art Word
A how-to: Make your words stand out!
The Basics
There are many things you can do to help your words stand out. The very basics consist of
italics,
bold, and
bold italics.
ArtWord will walk you through using these three things as well as adding
color and other effects.
Italics
Italics can be simple to use. Simply put an underscore in front and behind the text you wish to italiscize.
Example: My grandma is the
greatest. is really typed as My grandma is the
_greatest_.
If you choose to italiscize a whole sentence, you just put the underscores outside the words. For example:
I love icecream! is really typed
_I love icecream!_
Note: There are no additional spaces when using italics! (Text[space]text[space][underscore]text[underscore][space]text.) vs (Text[space]text[space]text[space]text.)
Bold
Bold works very much the same way as Italics. The main difference is you use an asterick (*) instead of an underscore (_). You still need to put one before and after the text you wish to show up bold.
Example: My grandma is the
greatest. is really typed as My grandma is the
*greatest*.
If you choose to bold an entire sentence, you just put the astericks outside all the words. For example:
I love icecream! is really typed
*I love icecream!*
Note: There are no additional spaces when using bold! (Text[space]text[space][asterick]text[asterick][space]text.) vs (Text[space]text[space]text[space]text.)
Bold & Italic
There are two ways to both bold and italicize text. As in life, there is an easy way, and a hard way. First, we shall take a look at the easy way. The easy way is much like adding italics to a word or phrase, though you use two underscores (no space!).
My grandma is the
greatest. is really typed My grandma is the
__greatest__.
If you choose to italicize and bold a whole sentence, you just put the underscores outside the words. For example:
I love icecream! is really typed
__I love icecream!__
Note: There are no additional spaces when using italics! (Text[space]text[space][underscore][underscore]text[underscore][underscore][space]text.) vs (Text[space]text[space]text[space]text.)
Now the hard way: You use both the asterick and the underscore, but you have to use them in the correct order. By using an asterick followed by an underscore preceding the text and an underscore followed by an asterick after the text you are able to receive the bold italic results. However, if you confuse the order and use underscore, asterick, text, asterick, underscore you will simply have italic text surrounded by underscores as a result.
Examples:
This works. is really
*_This works._*
*This doesn't work.* is really
_*This doesn't work.*_
*_This also doesn't work.*_
_*Neither does this._*
Colors
There are many colors to choose from, that may very well be the most difficult decision to make when zesting up your wiki page. There are the basic
red,
orange,
yellow,
green,
blue, and
purple.
Now here is how to use them:
My favorite color is
gray. is really typed My favorite color is % GRAY % gray % ENDCOLOR % . (WITHOUT SPACES)
This particular code is very specific. The name of the color (in this case, GRAY) and the 'ENDCOLOR' must be in CAPITOLS. And between the % symbol and COLOR or ENDCOLOR there should be NO SPACES!
Here is another example:
Orange is a fun summer color. Is really % ORANGE % Orange is a fun summer color. % ENDCOLOR % (WITHOUT SPACES, and the code in caps.)
To make things really colorful (but very complicated) one can change the color of
eac
h let
ter. It will look like a long string of text for each word, as no additional spaces should be present. There will be a % COLOR % in front of each letter and a % ENDCOLOR % after each. (% RED %h% ENDCOLOR %% BLUE %e% ENDCOLOR %% ORANGE %l% ENDCOLOR %% YELLOW %l%ENDCOLOR %% GRAY %o% ENDCOLOR %. --Once more, no spaces. Will look like:
hello)
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RonniLuchterhand - 01 Aug 2005