Unless you put the words into transparent (ie 'no fill') textboxes, so you can overlay them, you won't be able to get the letters to touch. That's because of the 'white space' that's built into the actual fonts. Even then, unless you want some letters to overlap, only a few will actually touch.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Your suggestion worked - thanks for the tip. Still time consuming, and it seems that I can't copy and paste several text boxes at a time (maybe I'm not doing something right), but it'll get me by for now. So thanks again.