Make my text look the same in all browsers

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

. If you want text on a Web page to look the same in all browsers, you can use a Web font, or you can convert that text to a picture.

  • Do one of the following:

ShowSelect a Web font

The following Web fonts are Latin text fonts that have been designed or selected for easy screen readability. These Web fonts are also TrueType fonts, which many of your readers will already have installed on their computers:

  • Arial
  • Arial Black
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Courier New
  • Georgia
  • Impact
  • Symbol
  • Times New Roman
  • Trebuchet
  • Verdana
  • Wingdings

When you work on Web publications, you can limit the selection of available fonts to Web fonts.

ShowHow?

  1. In a Web publication, click Font on the Format menu.
  2. In the Font dialog box, click Show only Web fonts.

ShowInsert your text as WordArt

  1. On the Objects toolbar, click Insert WordArt Button image.
  2. Click the special effect you want, and then click OK.
  3. In the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, type the text you want to format, select any other options you want, and then click OK.
  4. To add or change effects to the text, use the tools on the WordArt toolbar.

ShowInsert your text as a picture

  1. Click the text box that you want to convert to a picture.
  2. On the Edit menu, click Cut.
  3. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
  4. Under As, click one of the following Web graphic formats:
    • Picture (GIF)
    • Picture (PNG)
    • Picture (JPG/JFIF)
  5. Click OK.

Note   When text is converted to a picture, you can no longer edit it as text. Also, your Web site may take longer to download in a browser if you convert your text into a picture.