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After a few minutes of playing, you should have something like on the right. You can choose if you want to also add icicles below the letters (13). I choose not to. Aligning the icicles can sometime be tricky, as Word is not perfectly accurate when drawing the text. For this reason, perfectly aligned icicles in the zoomed-in view can look a little bit off when viewed at different zoom levels or at 100%. But that is fine. Nobody will examine those tiny details except you. Adding the blurred snowflakes will be easier than you might think. Draw an Oval from the menu Insert › Shapes › Basic Shapes with the (Shift) key pressed to make it a perfect circle (14). Right click the object and select Format Shape to show the format pane on the right, and in here change the Line to No Line (15) and Fill color to white (16). To make the “snowflake” more subtle, lower the fill Transparency to 50% (17). While keeping the object selected and Format pane open, switch to Effects (18) › Soft Edges (19) and increase Size to 5 pt (20). This will blur the circle and create the “bokeh” effect. The next 25 steps are very similar. Drag this blurred circle with the (Ctrl) key pressed (21) to create a copy, maybe resize it, adjust the fill Transparency and even play with the amount of the blur effect. This time every snowflake does not need to be different. If you look closely, there are only about four types of snowflakes used on the right image and distributed around the space evenly.
While it looks nice when you overlap two snowflakes (22), try not to overuse this effect. When duplicating, try to avoid big empty spaces without any snowflakes, as well as too many snowflakes in one spot. The Fill Transparency is for all snowflakes between 50 and 80%. We still want the text to be in focus. Freeze text effect
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