Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))

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In addition to adding textures and colors, you can apply 3-D and shadow effects to lines, arrows, shapes, AutoShapes, backgrounds, and freeform shapes. Generally, you'll want to use 3-D and shadow effects when you want to create a sense of depth in your drawing. Both the shadow and the 3-D effects are accessible from the Drawing toolbar.

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Adding and Controlling Shadows

You can instantly add depth to drawing objects in Word by adding a shadow to the edge of an object. The Shadow Style effects in Word enable you to add various shadow styles to objects, adjust shadow position, and change shadow color. Figure 16-21 shows a few flowchart objects formatted using the Shadow Style effects.

Figure 16-21. You can add shadows to basic objects, as shown in this flowchart structure.

Creating Shadows

You can add a 50-percent gray shadow to any selected object by using a preset shadow style in Word. To do so, you use the Shadow Style drop-down menu on the Drawing toolbar, shown in Figure 16-22.

Figure 16-22. Word provides 20 preset styles on the Shadow Style drop-down menu.

To add a preset shadow style to an object, select the object you want to add a shadow to, click the Shadow Style button on the Drawing toolbar, and choose a shadow style on the Shadow Style drop-down menu. To remove a shadow, select the object, and click No Shadow on the Shadow Style drop-down menu.

Changing the Position of Shadows

After you apply a shadow, you can manually adjust the shadow's position relative to the object. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Select the object whose shadow you want to adjust.
2. Click the Shadow Style button on the Drawing toolbar, and choose Shadow Settings on the drop-down menu. The Shadow Settings toolbar opens.

   The buttons on the Shadow Settings toolbar are described in Table 16-2.

3. Click the appropriate buttons to reposition the shadow. Each time you click a nudge button, the shadow moves 1 point in the specified direction.

Table 16-2. Shadow Settings Toolbar Buttons

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Coloring Shadows

In addition to adjusting a shadow's position, you can also color a shadow. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Select the drawing object that contains the shadow you want to change.
2. Click the Shadow button on the Drawing toolbar, and choose Shadow Settings from the drop-down menu. The Shadow Settings toolbar opens.
3. On the Shadow Settings toolbar, click the Shadow Color down arrow, and choose the color you want to apply to the shadow from the drop-down menu.

If you don't see the color you want on the Shadow Color drop-down menu, click More Shadow Colors to access the Standard and Custom tabs in the Colors dialog box (as discussed in the section "Specifying Line and Fill Colors," ). The Shadow Color drop-down menu also includes a Semitransparent option. This option is selected by default; it creates a lighter shadow that you can see text through. Clear the Semitransparent selection if you want to make your shadow darker and make sure that text is not visible through the shadow.

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Applying and Customizing 3-D Effects

By using 3-D effects, you can format and customize simple 3-D objects. To add a 3-D effect to an object, Word adjusts the two-dimensional object by expanding (or extruding) the object's edges and rotating the object to an angle. In Word, you can control the depth of a 3-D object's extrusion as well as the object's angle. In addition, you can specify how light and shadow reflect off the shape, and you can specify how the object's surface should be formatted by choosing the Wire Frame, Matte, Plastic, or Metal option.

Adding 3-D Effects

To create a 3-D effect, you use the 3-D Style drop-down menu, shown in Figure 16-23.

Figure 16-23. Word provides 20 preset styles on the 3-D Style menu.

To format a 3-D object, follow these steps:

1. Select the object you want to modify.
2. On the Drawing toolbar, click the 3-D Style button, and then click a 3-D setting on the 3-D Style drop-down menu.

After you create a 3-D object, you can remove a 3-D effect by choosing No 3-D on the 3-D Style drop-down menu. You can also change which 3-D setting is applied by selecting the 3-D object and choosing a different setting on the 3-D Style drop-down menu.

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Controlling Light, Color, Angle, and Other Settings

After you apply a 3-D style to an object, you can change the 3-D style's appearance, including its color, rotation, depth, lighting, and surface texture. To modify an object's 3-D effects, you select the object, click the 3-D button on the Drawing toolbar, and then click 3-D Settings on the 3-D Style drop-down menu to open the 3-D Settings toolbar. Table 16-3 describes the buttons available on the 3-D Settings toolbar.

To use any of the 3-D Settings toolbar buttons, select the 3-D object and then click the appropriate toolbar button. Similar to the color settings available for other objects, the 3-D Color drop-down menu enables you to create custom colors for a 3-D object's extrusion by choosing the More 3-D Colors option to display the Colors dialog box. (The Colors dialog box is shown in Figures 16-13 and 16-14.)

Table 16-3. 3-D Settings Toolbar Buttons