# Cartoon dialogue bubbles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660 "2002-10-03T12:20:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/1 "2002-10-03T12:20:45Z")

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I’m trying to create a little cartoon for fun and I’d like to create those bubbles where the dialogue appears and it kind of points down toward the mouth of the character.

How can I do this? I have a plain-vanilla Win98 with MS Office and MGI Photo Suite 4. 😕

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/2 "2002-10-03T12:27:30Z")

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Powerpoint has speech bubbles in the _Callouts_ section of the Autoshapes tool.

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**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/3 "2002-10-03T12:31:07Z")

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So does **Word** , in the Autoshapes / Callouts box.

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**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/4 "2002-10-03T12:41:07Z")

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Nevermind. I found it.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/5 "2002-10-03T13:08:16Z")

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You’re welcome.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-dialogue-bubbles/130660/6 "2002-10-03T13:24:36Z")

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Cartoon dialogue bubbles are properly called _fumetti_, just FYI.