

The first was that hymnals were a profoundly valuable tool in the spiritual formation of the Lord’s people. Through graduate school and local church ministry, two realizations slowly grew in my thinking. Thus was formed in my mind the genealogy of praise: congregational singing (vehicle), to hymnology (codification), and ultimately to hymnals (dissemination).


The great pursuit he daily set before us was the edification of the Lord’s people and the exaltation of Christ through corporate praise. My love of hymnals was really first stirred in graduate school by Fred Coleman, one of my professors and a music minister. There’s a particular enjoyment from specialization in any discipline-not only for its own sake, but for the results it brings. The more obvious result is the joy that comes from finding a niche and exploring it as far as you can. One of the likely consequences of tackling an extended project is that your feelings toward it alternate between loving and loathing, depending on the day. However, Microsoft removed the options in Word 2010 and Word 2013 for native DOCX and DOCM files.Here I share a little history of my growing interest in hymnals, examine modern hymnal engraving conventions, and discuss best practices. If you're using a document file in Word 2010 or Word 2013 in compatibility mode (in other words, the file is in DOC format, not DOCX or DOCM), the Engrave and Emboss options will be in the Font dialog box just as they are in Word 2007. You can also play with different font colors and background colors to make the engraved text appear different. Make sure the Engrave check box is selected.Click the small icon at the bottom-right of the Font group.Make sure the Home tab of the ribbon is displayed.Regular, engraved, and embossed headings. Engraved text is the opposite of embossed text.

One of the ways in which you can format text in your document is to apply what Word calls "engraving." When you engrave text, it appears to be sunken into the page, with shadowing at the edges.
