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Start with a blank document, create Text Box with no fill and no outline, and type the word “RETRO”, with font Arial, sized 110 pt (1). Make it center aligned (2) and change the font color to White (3).
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To change the page background color, go to ribbon Design › Page Color, and select the standard black color (4). We want to have our text blurred, but the Blur Effect is only available for images, and the Soft Edges effect (which is almost the same as the blur effect) is only available for shapes. We need to find another way, that is, using other effects, namely Glow effect.
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Show the Format Shape pane (5) by right clicking over the text box border and selecting the Format Shape (6). Switch to Text Options (7) › Text Effects (8) and open the properties for the Glow effects. Change the glow Color (9) to white to match the text color and Size to about 8 pt (10). Because the glow has the very same color as the text, it looks like if the text was blurred. The glow also adds a thick outline to the otherwise light text (compare it with the first screenshot).
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