You’ve probably seen them. Puffy groups of words that illustrate articles, especially those that you read on the internet. Yes, they have a name – Word Clouds.
Why are they seemingly so prolific? Word clouds are great visual tools because they help to communicate ideas in a very direct way by putting the focus on the most important words in a story. As an added bonus, there are free programs that easily let you create amazing word clouds in minutes!
How can I use Word Clouds?
- For writers, they are a creative way to visualize the text you’re working on. It allows you to see what words you are using the most, so you can get a quick sense of the themes emerging in your writing. Use them to illustrate stories and articles.
- As a reader, it can help you focus on the keywords of an article to help you decide if it’s going to be relevant to your interests.
- For the creative person, word clouds are fun! There are unlimited colors, shapes and styles from which to choose.
- For teachers, add eye-popping color and visual interest to your materials to illustrate your presentation.
- For the curious, learn something new and amaze your friends and family!
- For anyone, add pizzazz to your emails, add interest to your social media posts and even add pop to your holiday newsletters!
How are word clouds created? A word cloud is created by counting words in text that you supply. The more words you include when creating your word cloud, generally the better your results will be. This is especially true when creating shapes – like the butterfly above. By default, the more frequently a word is found, the larger it becomes in the word cloud. This draws your reader to the key points of your story.
How can I create Word Clouds?
Are you ready to try one? I’ll guide you through it. Word clouds are fun and easy to create using free programs, or as a free add-in to Microsoft’s Word or PowerPoint.
I recently tried several online programs to create word clouds. I’ll give you details about two of the best free sites that I found, plus instructions on how to use Microsoft’s free Pro Word Cloud add-in for Word and PowerPoint users.
Word It Out – Easy
- Pros: Easy to use; Colors can be customized; Word list easy to adjust
- Cons: Limited fonts; only one layout arrangement; Save it to a link first to be able to download your image; some ads; email is required (workaround; use a snipping tool)
- How to get: Go to the URL, https://worditout.com/word–cloud/ .
- How to use: Word It Out opens in an original text window. Copy and paste the text of your document or use a list of keywords. Click Generate. Adjust font style and colors then and regenerate to get your desired results. Click Save and follow the instructions.
- Tips:
- Click Example to see how it works with sample text.
- Use a snipping tool to copy your image and paste it, or save it to your document.
WordClouds – Easy to medium
Wordclouds.com is the most fun. It’s a free online word cloud generator and works on your PC, tablet or smartphone. Paste text, upload a document or open a URL to generate a word cloud automatically. Customize your cloud with shapes, themes, colors and fonts.
- Pros: Many fun and creative shape choices; Easy to edit the word list to customize your word results
- Cons: Limited built-in themes; Changing colors and fonts takes some practice, but the Wizard is very helpful
- How to get: go to the URL, https://www.wordclouds.com/. Use the Wizard for the first time. Enter some text to try out how it works. Explore the options to upload files.
- How to use: You need to provide the text (type, copy/paste or upload a document). Use the Wizard for the first few times. Use the File drop-down to save your word cloud. Or right-click for save options.
- Tips: Gallery and FAQ links are good places for ideas. Under Shape, try out the Letters and Colorful options (Christmas tree, pumpkin).
Microsoft’s Pro Word Cloud add-in for Word and PowerPoint – a good choice for writers, medium to advanced Microsoft suite users
What’s next? Unleash your curiosity! Create a word cloud today to add pop to your writing, be creative, or learn something new. Here are some creative holiday examples using the words from this blog.
Diane White is an OLLI Instructor and OLLI Connects blog consultant. She joined OLLI-USF in 2008 and has taken OLLI courses in art, art appreciation, architecture, music, great books, science, nature, literature, and leadership. Diane is a member of OLLI’s Tech Squad. She teaches beginning and intermediate courses on Word, Android Phone Tips and Tricks for Intermediate Users in addition to Wanna Blog? which she will teach again in the 2019 Winter semester.
The word “out” has so many uses in English! “Out” may be short, but it is mighty! More than just a preposition, “out” has many uses in combination with other words. In this English lesson, I will introduce you to some of them and help you to increase your vocabulary. For example, “outcome” is another word for “end result” or “consequence”. The phrase “out of date” means that something is not fresh anymore. There are so many combinations of “out” with other words that they cannot all be named here, but here are more words you will learn in this lesson: outing, out loud, outer space, outcry, outfit, outlook, output, outnumber, outcast…and more!
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Arcade mode: do not let the time run out, find as many words as you can and accumulate precious seconds. Start with 30 seconds of time.
Hint: find the words with the largest possible number of letters to accumulate more seconds.
Mode Zen (1 VS 1): Subtract as many words as possible to your opponent, do not expire the time available to you and win the challenge.
Mode Classic (4 challengers): Find the first 10 words and win the challenge. Demonstrate to your friends that you know how to be the fastest.
N.B. Do you need a little help to beat all your records and/or to win your friends? Thanks to the virtual coins of Word it Out, you can buy a maximum of 5 words per match. You can accumulate your virtual coins just buying them or winning games.
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Want to cross out words, letters, or entire sentences in Microsoft Word? We’ll show you how to use strikethrough to cross out any text in your Microsoft Word document using a computer, Android, iPhone, iPad, or Windows tablet.
Things You Should Know
- The strikethrough option is located in the Home tab at the top of Word.
- You can apply a double-line strikethrough using the Font panel’s additional options.
- To remove a strikethrough, highlight the text and click the strikethrough icon. Alternatively, select ‘Clear Formatting’ to remove it.
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Highlight the text you want to strike out. You can do this by clicking and dragging the mouse cursor over the word or phrase.
- Although there is no keyboard shortcut for striking through text, it’ll only take a few seconds to apply the formatting.
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Click the Home tab. If you’re not already on the Home tab, you’ll need to click Home at the top of Word to go there now.
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Click the strikethrough icon. This icon looks like «
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- To remove the strikethrough effect, highlight the word or phrase again, and then click the ab icon.
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Apply double-line strikethrough (optional). If you want to cross out the selected word or phrase with two lines instead of one, you can use the double-line strikethrough effect.[1]
Here’s how:- With the word or phrase highlighted, click the small down-arrow on the «Font» panel at the top of the screen.
- Check the box next to «Double strikethrough.»
- Click OK.
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Tap the strikethrough icon (Android and Windows tablets only). If you see an icon that has lowercase «
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Tap the text formatting icon. It’s the icon of a capital «A» that has three horizontal dots beneath it.[2]
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- If you want to remove the strikethrough effect, select the text again, and then tap the ab icon (if you see it) or tap the text formatting icon and select Clear Formatting.
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