Macintosh Tips & Tricks

Topic:

Using really big text in ClarisWorks.

Tip:

(This trick comes in pretty handy in conjunction with the tip on improving print quality ClarisWorks.) ClarisWorks will not let you specify a type size bigger than 255 points. Generally, a text size bigger than that is rarely called for, but you can get bigger text if you need to.

If you copy a text block from ClarisWorks, paste it into the Apple Scrapbook, and then copy it from the Scrapbook and paste it back into your ClarisWorks document, ClarisWorks treats the pasted version as a graphic. You can scale it as big as you like!

Here's the step by step directions:

1. Create the text block with the text, style, and color that you want the text to be.
2. Click on the pointer tool in the ClarisWorks toolbox and then click on top of the text block so that it is selected and you can see the little black squares in each corner of the block.
3. Go to the Edit menu and select the Copy command.
4. Under the Apple menu on the top left of your monitor screen, select the Scrapbook.
5. From the Scrapbook's Edit menu, select the Paste command. This will paste a copy of the text block into the Scrapbook as an object.
6. Now, from the Scrapbook's Edit menu, select the Copy command. This will copy the text block (which is now an object).
7. Close the Scrapbook and go back to your ClarisWorks document.
8. From the ClarisWorks Edit menu, select the Paste command. This will paste what was a text block back into your ClarisWorks document as an object.
9. You can click on the object and scale it as big as you like!