Most of you surely have already realized for a few days that we are in the middle of Christmas time. While a few years ago the usual thing at this time of year was to exchange Christmas Christmas on paper, that has been left a little behind.
At least for most users, as some remain faithful to these more traditional greetings that we sent by conventional mail. At this time, as most of you surely already know, digital greetings are much more common. We can find or create these in a multitude of different ways. In fact, all this is something that we can carry out both from the PC and from a mobile device in a more or less simple way.
Everything will depend on the degree of originality that we want to obtain. With this, what we want to tell you is that when sending a Christmas greeting, on the Internet we can find a multitude of them already pre-designed. At the same time, we cannot forget everything that comes to us in different ways and that we can reuse with other contacts. In fact this is the most common thing to do on most occasions, but it is not always the case. And there are users who prefer to be a little more original or detailed in this sense.
Options to create your own Christmas greetings
Of course at the moment we have a multitude of options with which to design our own creations in this regard. From applications that we install on the computer or mobile, to web platforms that can be very helpful. Some are more complex and complete than others, while most are free. It should be noted that most of these applications to which we refer try to facilitate these design tasks in most cases.
Thus, these input alternatives already offer us a series of designs that serve as the basis so that we can customize them later. How could it be otherwise, this will greatly facilitate this type of task, something to be thankful for for the little experienced. But as we mentioned before, there are users who prefer to go one step further in this type of work. Therefore they prefer to be able to design from scratch, or almost, their own Christmas cards.
Well, one of the most popular and used applications around the world, can help us for this that we are talking about, we are talking about Microsoft Word . This is a program that little by little has grown to become the powerful tool that we find today. Despite being a text editor, the program also offers us certain more than interesting design functions, as we will see.
How to create your own Christmas greetings in Word
As we say, the text editor that integrates with the most used productivity suite in the world, Word, can be used for these tasks. This is valid whether we want to start from scratch, or if we are going to need some kind of help from you. Of course, from these lines we are going to show you how you can start and create your own congratulations that you are going to send from the beginning. From then on, everyone can use the components they like best for all of this, as well as complicate the design whatever they want.
Insert a background image to the Christmas greeting
Be that as it may, in most cases the first thing we will need is an image that will serve as the background of the greeting. To integrate it into the Word document , what we do is access the Insert menu, where we choose Images.
Here we will be able to choose in the disk units of the PC , the one that seems most appropriate for each specific case. The most appropriate in this case is that for example they are personal images, or a photo with the recipient of the greeting . As we mentioned before, that will depend on the tastes or preferences of each one. This will automatically add that chosen image to the Word document we are working on.
Add custom text in Word
At this point, it is worth mentioning that we have the possibility of moving it by dragging with the mouse pointer, or resizing it from its corners.
This is something that we can carry out with as many images as we want, but let’s see what the next step should be. And it is that in any congratulation worth its salt, whatever the type, something that can not be missing is the personalized text. It is true that at first we could think, since we are working in Word, we are going to write the text with some color and size, and that’s it.
But no, since the same program for editing texts offers us an excellent solution in this same sense. This will be of great help to us, for example in this case that we are talking about here. Specifically we refer to the use of the tool called WordArt , something that will probably be more than familiar to many. Here we refer to a function that allows us to create spectacular personalized texts that are treated as objects. This allows us to move and resize them easily, as we did with the image. Therefore, the first thing we do here is go to the Insert / WordArt menu option.
Then a new box will appear in the document so that we can type the text of the greeting. Of course, first we will have to choose its format, as well as the shades to choose. Say that in this sense Word offers us a good number of options and design formats. Therefore, once we have entered the text as such, as was the case with the image, here we can move and resize this box with the WordArt in the same way. It is enough that we place it, in this case, on the image that forms the basis of the congratulation. We even have the ability to rotate it to make the design even more personalized.
As you can imagine, the number of variants here is enormous, to a large extent it will already depend on the creativity of each one.
Create a Christmas greeting in Word with templates
It can also be the case that we do not want to use one of the many designs that circulate on WhatsApp or Facebook, but without starting from scratch. In this way, Word itself that we have talked about before, tries to make things a little easier for us. This is something that can also be very helpful if creativity is not one of our qualities.
We tell you all this because if necessary, Word itself tries to make things a little easier for us. That is, to be able to be a bit creative, but without complicating things too much. For this we can use the free templates that the program itself offers us. In order to access them, the first thing we do is open the program, but without creating a new blank document. Here we see, at the top, a search box where, for example, we can type the term Christmas.
Next on the screen we will see that there appear a good amount of Word templates specially designed for these issues.
As you can imagine, at this point all we have to do is find the design that interests us the most in this case. Then we select it to load on the screen in all its splendor. This template that we are talking about will serve as the basis for the Christmas greeting. But of course, now what we have to do is start customizing and adapting it.
Here we can make all the modifications we want, both in our own added elements, and in those that the template implements by default. In this way and in just a few steps, we will obtain really striking results without having to strain. To finish saying that on the Internet we can find other elements of this type that we can open directly in Word for editing, both paid and free.