TEXT IN DOTTED LINES, IS IT POSSIBLE?

These links are old and may not still be valid, but you can try them:

Set of 6 block letter fonts for teachers (including dotted, with arrows, and
guided) for $19.95
http://www.fontmenu.com/site/_BlockLetters.html
Same for cursive (also using D'Nealian system):
http://www.fontmenu.com/site/_CursiveHandwriting.html
Free samples available for evaluation


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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"FARAZ QURESHI" <FARAZQURESHI RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAFBE026-1377-4BEB-843A-C49B74D57ECD@microsoft.com...
>I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some letters.
> Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
> format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> FARAZ A. QURESHI
>

Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as if
it was dotted.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


"FARAZ QURESHI" <FARAZQURESHI.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AAFBE026-1377-4BEB-843A-C49B74D57ECD@microsoft.com...
>I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some letters.
> Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
> format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> FARAZ A. QURESHI

To add to JoAnn's suggestion: << Try using a simple font, like Arial, make
the letters 72 pts (or larger), and then change them from black to a light
color (for example, grey, pink, yellow, light blue). Your child could trace
the letter just as easily as if it was dotted. >>

You can also add the outline effect to the letters. Goto: Format > Font and
click "outline."

Steven Craig Miller

Even if she's so young a squirrel that she never heard of WordStar --
I think it came with my first DOS computer. (My first computer was a
Keypro 4/84, which came with PerfectWriter -- which could actually do
a few things that no modern word processor can.)

On Jun 14, 10:28 am, "JoAnn Paules" <jl_pau... DeleteThis @hotNOSPAMmail.com>
wrote:
> That was one of those things that just popped into my mind when I read the
> question.  
>
> (Every squirrel finds a nut now and then.)
>
> --
>
> JoAnn Paules
> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>
> "grammatim" <gramma... DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
>
> news:4e0c7452-159b-4199-932f-b856d1df36aa@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
> An especially useful suggestion if the child is learning a non-roman
> alphabet (as FQ's name suggests is possible), where such resources may
> not be available.
>
> On Jun 14, 9:02 am, "JoAnn Paules" <jl_pau... DeleteThis @hotNOSPAMmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Try using a simple font, like Arial, make the letters 72 pts (or larger),
> > and then change them from black to a light color (for example, grey, pink,
> > yellow, light blue). Your child could trace the letter just as easily as
> > if
> > it was dotted.
>
> > --
>
> > JoAnn Paules
> > MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> > Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>
> > "FARAZ QURESHI" <FARAZQURE... DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:AAFBE026-1377-4BEB-843A-C49B74D57ECD@microsoft.com...
>
> > >I am looking forward to have my child start writing and learn some
> > >letters.
> > > Is it possible to have some fonts, being enlarged ant written in dotted
> > > format so as to allow my son to trace such lines and learn writing?
>
> > > --
>
> > > Best Regards,
> > > FARAZ A. QURESHI-

How can she stand to even look at bright pink? I had to do a global
change of someone's highlighting once because they used that color and
it hurt my eyes to have it on the screen. (Don't remember how, since
you can't Find/Replace highlight color.)

On Jun 14, 11:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh... RemoveThis @mvps.org> wrote:
> I've often wondered to what extent users actually use the Outline, Emboss,
> Engrave, and Shadow effects for text (much less the various blinking effects
> and marching ants and such*). But your suggestion suggests to me that adding
> "broken" or "dotted" as a text effect would be quite useful.
>
> *I do know at least one MVP who formats Normal style as bright pink with
> marching ants so it is easy to tell when she has missed applying a specific
> paragraph style to any text. <g>
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>
> "StevenM" <stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote in message
>
> news:6F7440B9-72EC-47BF-B1A8-C9D9CA254B16@microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> > To add to JoAnn's suggestion: << Try using a simple font, like Arial, make
> > the letters 72 pts (or larger), and then change them from black to a light
> > color (for example, grey, pink, yellow, light blue). Your child could
> > trace
> > the letter just as easily as if  it was dotted. >>
>
> > You can also add the outline effect to the letters. Goto: Format > Font
> > and
> > click "outline."

"grammatim" wrote: << How can she stand to even look at bright pink? >>

Suzanne will correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed that was the point!
(Namely, she wasn't going to use the "Normal" style in her documents.)

Steven Craig Miller