Create a Certificate in Word - A Step-by-Step Guide You can create your own certificate in Microsoft Word to use with your lessons, theme units, and other projects. Here's how: 1. Open a blank Word document. 2. Select Page Setup from the File menu. Then, select the page orientation you would like to use for your certificate (vertical, called Portrait, or horizontal called Landscape). 3. Select Borders and Shading from the Format menu. Click the Page Border tab across the top of the window. From the Art section at the bottom, select the type of border that fits the theme of your certificate or one that simply looks nice. To make the border stand out, select a larger Width size. Also, you can change the color of a single-colored border from the Color area. 4. Type your text. 5. Make the title of your certificate stand out by using Word Art. Select Picture, Word Art from the Insert menu. Format your Word Art with colors and a style that makes your title attractive. 6. Add clip art to jazz up your certificate. Search for a picture that fits the theme of your certificate from the Insert, Picture, Clip Art menu. Place your picture anywhere on the page by first selecting In Front of Text from the Text Wrapping button (Picture toolbar). Drag the picture to a good spot. 7. Save your certificate, print it out on either white paper or try colored paper.
Modify a Certificate of the Month Idea 1: Jazz Up the Word Art Title – Change the color or style of a WordArt title. To change the color: 1. Select the WordArt title. 2. Right click, and then click Format WordArt. 3. Select Color and Lines. 4. Select the color you want under Fill, Color. To change the style: 1. Select the WordArt title. 2. Click Edit Text on the WordArt toolbar. (If this toolbar isn't visible, choose View, Toolbars, WordArt.) 3. In the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, change the font or the size of the WordArt. Click the Bold or Italic button to make all of the text bold or italic. Idea 2: Watermark a graphic – Change a picture to be very pale. Then, set it behind the text. Here's how: 1. Right-click the picture. Then click Format Picture. 2. Click Picture tab. 3. Under Image Control, click Washout. Then click OK. 4. Click Layout tab. 5. Under Wrapping style, click Behind text. Add your own words and see how they look with the picture behind them.