This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Formatting Graphics
When your shape or picture is sized, positioned, rotated, and ordered, you’re ready to make it look good by formatting the graphic. The Office for iPad apps come with a number of image formatting tools that enables you to apply styles, add shadows and reflections, change fills and lines, and format graphic text. The rest of this chapter provides you with the details of these and other techniques that you can use to format graphic objects.
Apply a Picture Style
You can enhance your pictures by formatting the images. For example, the Office for iPad apps offer more than two dozen picture styles, which are predefined formats that apply various combinations of shadows, reflections, borders, and layouts.
- Tap the picture you want to format.
- Tap the Picture tab.
Tap Picture Styles. The Picture Styles gallery appears.
Tap the picture style you want to use. The app applies the style to the picture.
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Add a Picture Shadow
You can add an interesting lighting effect to a document by applying a shadow effect to the document graphics. You can make a picture stand out from the document by applying an outer shadow or perspective shadow; and you can make a picture look set into the document by applying an inner shadow.
- Tap the picture you want to format.
- Tap the Picture tab.
Tap Shadow. The Shadow gallery appears.
Tap the shadow effect you want to apply. The app applies the shadow to the picture.
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Enhance a Picture with a Reflection
A simple but attention-grabbing look for a picture is a reflection, which makes it appears as though the picture is resting on a shiny surface. The Office for iPad apps offer several reflection styles that vary the intensity and length of the reflection.
- Tap the picture you want to format.
- Tap the Picture tab.
Tap Reflection. The Reflection gallery appears.
Tap the reflection type you want to apply. The app applies the reflection to the picture.
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Apply a Shape Style
You can enhance your shapes by applying one of Office for iPad’s apps that offer more than 40 shape styles, which are predefined formats that apply various combinations of colors, gradients, and 3-D effects.
- Tap the shape you want to format.
- Tap the Shape tab.
Tap Shape Styles. The Shape Styles gallery appears.
Tap the shape style you want to use. The app applies the style to the shape.
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Format the Shape Line and Fill
Each shape has two characteristics that you can customize: the line, which is the outline of the shape, and the fill, which is the interior of the shape (assuming it has one; a line, for example, doesn’t have a fill). In both cases, you can choose from a palette of 60 colors associated with the document’s theme, as well as the app’s palette of 10 standard colors.
- Tap the shape you want to format.
- Tap the Shape tab.
- Tap Line. The Line gallery appears.
- Tap the tab for the color collection you want to use.
Tap the color you want to apply. The app applies the color to the shape’s line.
- Tap Shape Fill. The Shape Fill gallery appears.
- Tap the tab for the color collection you want to use.
Tap the color you want to apply. The app applies the color to the shape’s fill.
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Set the Text Style for a Shape or Text Box
If you’ve added text to a shape or to a text box, you can format that text using the standard font commands on the Home tab. However, Office for iPad also offers the Text Styles gallery, which comes with 20 predefined formats that can give your graphic text little extra oomph.
- Tap the shape or text box you want to format.
- Tap the Shape tab.
Tap Text Styles. The Text Styles gallery appears.
Tap the style you want to apply. The app applies the style to the shape or text box text.
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