Text bending in PowerPoint, how?

[TUS 373]

Just trying to draw something up in PowerPoint, and I'm wanting to put a line of text around the outside of a circle - in a normal (not arty) text style.

What command do I use to bend it around the circle please?

Sorry to have to ask, for all of Gate's billions, his sodding paperclip is still useless!

TIA
Bryan

[victormeldrew]

Wordart. The p*ssed A on the drawing toolbar. Pick the third one in (on a curve) then manipulate the anchors (the yellow dots) until you get a circle. Doddle.



>> Edited by victormeldrew on Tuesday 24th August 18:26

[TUS 373]

LOL! Nice one!

The effect I'm looking for is just to bend some text into an arc - of the right size and curvature - not into a circle. Sorry, I should have said more clealy.

I can get a yellow dot to drag, but it tries to bring eberything into a circle. I guess the effect I'm after is equivalent to the word 'Bridgestone' around just a portion of a tyre!

[Flat in Fifth]

TUS 373 said:

LOL! Nice one! The effect I'm looking for is just to bend some text into an arc - of the right size and curvature - not into a circle. Sorry, I should have said more clealy. I can get a yellow dot to drag, but it tries to bring eberything into a circle. I guess the effect I'm after is equivalent to the word 'Bridgestone' around just a portion of a tyre!

You pick the style which has the text in an arc, on my version top row third one in.
Then you drag the box until you get the right shape, use the wordart toolbar to sort out character spacing etc.

[victormeldrew]

Yes, the third one on the top row is the one I used. It starts as an arc. You can pull the vertices of the bounding box to change the curvature of the arc (the size of the ellipse or circle). The yellow anchor determines how much of the circumference is taken up by the text. The green anchor determines the rotation (where the text starts relative to 12 o clock).



Help yourself to this file: www.picksupport.com/images/bridgestone.ppt



>> Edited by victormeldrew on Tuesday 24th August 22:44

[TUS 373]

Thanks chaps. Took some tinkering about, but got there in the end.