How to Create a Banner

How to Create a Banner2 How to Create a Banner A banner is usually cloth, cardboard sheet with a slogan or motto writing or printed on it. It can even be a headline extending the width of a tabloid, newspaper or a magazine page. Originated from the Latin word “bandum” a banner normally, bears the statements of any official proclamation to disobey orders, making demands in an organization to bring radical changes etc. Besides creating a banner on a cloth w can also go for a computer system.

Following are some very easy steps to create a banner using a computer: -

Install the Microsoft Word application that come built in with the Microsoft office software in your computer.
By a single left click on the toolbar of the Microsoft Word application, open the file tab. Instantly, a drop down menu will appear. Select the “New Blank Document” option available in the list.
Convert the usual portrait mode to the landscape mode by a single right-click on the “Page Setup” option available in that drop down list. As soon as you select that option you can see the changes with the margins and borders previously available on the blank word document.
The number of pages you feel necessary for the banner can be made according to your selection. Even the size of the font and what type of fonts you prefer to use can be brought automatically with the options available in the Microsoft word.
To enter the text or the word for the banner, go to the “Insert” menu available on the toolbar. There you will find an option “Picture” after selecting the Insert menu with a single left click, you will get to see many options available in the side box menu. Out of those select the “Word Art” option.
In there you can see various styles and patterns for creating a text within a box. Select your desired style and write the required slogan or statement you had decided for the banner. You can also apply shadow feature, 3-D effect already available in the built in patterns and styles of “Word Art”.
To give an appealing and cool look to your banner, you can use the “Auto Shapes” option available under the drop down “Insert” menu. Colors too can be added at ease for the background of your banner and also for the fonts.
If you prefer to make more banners you can apply the same set of rules in the next forthcoming pages for your banner. But make sure you save all the changes made in the process of creating a banner through Microsoft Word application. This can be done by a single left click on the option available as “Save” in the drop down menu of “File” of the “Microsoft Word toolbar.
Print out after all the necessary points you felt have put down in the creation of the banner. This feature too is available in the drop down list of the “file” menu. You can even make multiple copies while printing by selecting the appropriate options available in the Microsoft Word application.