You can, however, select the text from a text box or Text field in the Edit Word Art Text dialog, copy it to the Clipboard by pressing Ctrl-C on your keyboard and then paste it into the other place by pressing Ctrl-V.Launch Microsoft Publisher.

You can make changes to either Word Art or text box text, but you cannot directly change one into the other.

To change the text itself, click on it to highlight it and type the new text, or place your cursor at a point in the text to insert or delete individual text characters. Select Format Text Box to change the text box's appearance, such as adding a fill color to the box or a border. Choose an option in the Change Text sub-menu to alter the text's appearance, such as Font to change the font and point size.

To change the appearance of text in a text box, click on the box with your right mouse button to display a floating menu.

To modify the appearance of Word Art, use one of the options in the floating Word Art toolbar to change the color, shape or formatting � or to choose a new option from the Word Art Gallery.

Once you've placed your text as Word Art or in a text box, you can modify its appearance as you wish by first clicking on it and following the instructions below.

Choose From Scanner or Camera to insert a picture image from a digital camera or scanner connected to your computer.Įdit the text as necessary.

(Use this option to block out where to place pictures before actually inserting them.) You can rotate or re-size the frame using the dots around the frame and then select the picture to insert using one of the options in the Picture toolbar.

You then move your cursor to the calendar, hold down your left mouse button and drag to create a frame. Choose Empty Picture Frame to trace out a picture frame.You then move your cursor to the calendar, hold down your left mouse button and drag to create a frame, and then select your picture from the Insert Picture dialog. Choose Picture from File to insert a picture file from your hard drive.You then browse for the image using the Clip Art pane. Choose Clip Art to insert a line art image from your hard drive.The 4 options are Clip Art, Picture from File, Empty Picture Frame and From Scanner or Camera. (If the layout shows your calendar overlapping the sides of the page, you can still select that option and then manually adjust the calendar elements.)Ĭhoose 1 of the 4 options that appear. The selection of Blank Page Sizes will show how your calendar will look on that page layout. You can change the page size of your calendar by clicking 'Change Page Size' in the Publication Options section of the Format Publication pane.In addition, if you choose a blank size first for your calendar, you will then have to add a template from the Calendar Options section of the Format Publication pane in the work screen to see a calendar. The Options task pane is not available if you choose a blank size for your calendar.

Use the options in the Options task pane (called 'Calendar Options' in Publisher 2003) to determine whether the calendar is laid out in Portrait (vertical) or Landscape (horizontal) format, whether all 12 months are displayed on a single page or each month gets its own page, what the starting and ending month and year are and whether the calendar includes a schedule of events.

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