Adding a Quick Style to Shape Text

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Instead of changing individual attributes of text in a shape, such as text fill, text outline, and text effects, you can quickly add them all at once with the WordArt Quick Style gallery. The WordArt Quick Style gallery (New!) provides a variety of different formatting combinations. To quickly see if you like a WordArt Quick Style, point to a thumbnail in the gallery to display a live preview (New!) of it in the selected shape. If you like it, you can apply it.

Add a Quick Style to Shape Text

Click the shapes with the text you want to apply a new or different Quick Style.

Click the Format tab under Drawing Tools.

Click the scroll up or down arrow, or click the More list arrow in the WordArt Styles group to see additional styles.

The current style appears highlighted in the gallery.

Point to a style.

A live preview (New!) of the style appears in the current shape text.

Click the style you want from the gallery to apply it to the selected shape.