Microsoft Word/Open Office

[amazingkevin]

On 10/30/2017 at 12:58 AM, octoolguy said:

I just googled and found this. This is for Open Office. 

If you need kerning only for selected parts of your text, follow these steps:

1. Highlight the passages of your text for which kerning needs to be enabled.
2. Select Format > Character.
3. Select the Position tab. In the "Spacing" section, check the check box Pair kerning.

 

For Word, do the same except go to the Format/Font/character Spacing............

Im going to try this with office word,thanks

[amazingkevin]

On 10/30/2017 at 6:37 PM, MrsN said:

I have made a few tutorials for using open office, but they are on an old computer. I will dig around a bit to see if I can find them. 

that will be helpful to me Katie!

[Fab4]

Kevin:

Keep us posted on your progress

Fab4

[Kragax]

Kevin, which version of office do you have?

 

[Rockytime]

16 hours ago, amazingkevin said:

Im going to try this with office word,thanks

I just tried this in Open Office and it works, however, the kerning is global and not individual characters. I'm just now experimenting with Inkscape. Rav4 got me off to a jump start. I'm viewing the tutorial on my tablet and following along on my PC. I think eventually I may just get the hang of it. Thanks for all the suggestions offered.

Regards, Les

Edited November 1, 2017 by Rockytime
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[OCtoolguy]

1 hour ago, Rockytime said:

I just tried this in Open Office and it works, however, the kerning is global and not individual characters. I'm just now experimenting with Inkscape. Rav4 got me off to a jump start. I'm viewing the tutorial on my tablet and following along on my PC. I think eventually I may just get the hang of it. Thanks for all the suggestions offered.

Regards, Les

Les, I have been watching first video and I also downloaded the same fonts as Travis used in his tutorial just so I could do it the same as he did. It really is a great program and the "kerning" is really easy and so manageable. Isn't it great for us old guys to realize we still have gray matter that can be utilized?

 

[Dave Monk]

Travis's tutorials are fantast. As slow as I learn it took a long time and lots of patients. If I run into a single thing that I am trying to do I will go to utube and search for it. 

[OCtoolguy]

57 minutes ago, Dave Monk said:

Travis's tutorials are fantast. As slow as I learn it took a long time and lots of patients. If I run into a single thing that I am trying to do I will go to utube and search for it. 

I do wish he would go a bit slower with his mouse moves but after watching it enough times, I catch on but like you very slowly. I'm going to pursue the rest of his vids now. I want to get proficient with Inkscape. I never seem to have the same version that is being shown in these tutorials though. I think I have the latest Inkscape now.

 

[Rockytime]

I also wish things were a little slower. He speaks rapidly also and as I am somewhat hearing impaired I sometimes scroll back and review. That is the nice thing about a video.