Starting from the left (in the WordArt toolbar) 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 by clicking-on this button. 

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 Format WordArt menu screen at the top of the next page will appear.  Go ahead and click the Format WordArt button.

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 tab will do.  We’ll just click-on the Color choice for now (see arrow at left). We’ll click-on the small “down arrow” to bring up the menu below.

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

There are a lot of really unique features with the color palettes in Microsoft software.  The Custom color pallet, which you see on the left, has two “neat” 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 to choose a color (left arrow), and the “up and down” triangle, (right arrow) in the image on the left.  Select a color and give it a try.

Once you have selected a color, click the OK button.  You will see the changes in your WordArt.  A note:  you can spend a lot of time changing colors.  That’s up to you!

 

When you click-on the fifth button from the left (it has an “A” 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.

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.

 Save your work!!

 

As you were working with your WordArt Image you probably noticed one or two small, yellow diamonds at the edge of the image.  These are really neat.  They allow you to adjust the view of your image.  The best way to see how this works is to move your mouse over the yellow diamond.  When you do, you will see that your cursor arrow changes to a pointer (like the image on the left).  When you see this, click-on the diamond, hold-down the left mouse button, and move your mouse.  You will see little dashed lines appear.  As you move the mouse you will see your image change a bit.  Give this a try.  If you have two diamonds with your image, try each one.