I don't know if this can be done in Word. A triangle isn't one of the official shapes.
As a work-around I suggest you make the triangle (including the text) in Paint, then save it as gif-file, and include that file (it's a rectangle containing the triangle) in your Word document. Paint does have a "fill" option for any enclosed area.
Kees
Windows XP Pro SP2 with MS Word 2002:
I have drawn a triangle using 'line', around some text. i.e. I first typed some text, then drew a triangle around the text, so that the text were inside the triangle. All these were done inside a text box. Now, I want to fill in the triangle with color. How do I do it ? I tried to highlght or select the triangle to fill, but was not able to do so. I only managed to fill in the text box. Help appreciated. Thanks.
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