Rotate text along with rotating rectangle

[Yawrood]

I inserted a rectangle into my document so that I could take advantage of
rotating it along with the text I added. The rectangle rotates, but the text
does not - why?

 

[CyberTaz]

Because word processing programs aren't intended to create documents in
which the reader of the finished product has to rotate the printed page

If you *must* do something like this in Word you can use WordArt or create
the object in a graphics program and insert it into your doc.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Yawrood,

Text in text boxes in MS Office Publisher and Powerpoint (where you're working in a 'page size' drawing container rotate with the
box. In Word and Excel, where you're in a 'text based' environment text does not rotate with the box unless you copy it to the
clipboard then use Edit=>Paste Special and choose a picture/graphic format.

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I inserted a rectangle into my document so that I could take advantage of
rotating it along with the text I added. The rectangle rotates, but the text
does not - why? >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

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[Yawrood]

Thank you for your response..... but in Word "Help" it clearly states in
"About Shapes" ..... ......"You can add text to shapes. The text you add
becomes part of the shape— if you rotate or flip the shape, the text rotates
or flips with it."

So, again, why doesn't the text rotate along with the rectangle. You can
read it for yourself if you want.

 

[Yawrood]

Thank you Bob for your response. However, if you open Word Help and look in
"About Shapes" - the following appears (second paragraph)............"You can
add text to shapes. The text you add becomes part of the shape— if you rotate
or flip the shape, the text rotates or flips with it."

Therefore, why doesn't it work?

 

[Yawrood]

Hi again Bob - in addition to what I just responded, I tried the "paste
special" from the office clipboard - the text did NOT rotate along with the
rectangle after I pasted it in.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Yawrood,

Did you select a graphic format from Paste Special, such as PNG?

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Hi again Bob - in addition to what I just responded, I tried the "paste
special" from the office clipboard - the text did NOT rotate along with the
rectangle after I pasted it in. >>

 

[Yawrood]

Yes

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If I insert as Picture (Windows Metafile), GIF, PNG, or JPEG, the text
rotates with the shape (the display quality varies, and I presume print
quality would vary as well). If I paste as Picture (Enhanced Metafile), the
text disappears. Only if I paste as MS Office Drawing Object (which is what
it already is) or HMTL does the text neither rotate nor vanish.

 

[Yawrood]

Suzanne:
Unfortunately, I do not know how to insert as Picture. (I'm not sure about
how to do it with Word Art either). If I insert a rectangle, then type some
text into it, my choices of things I can save it as does not include
"picture". If I just save it as a document, then try to insert that into a
rectangle in a second doc, I only get an error. Please tell me where/what I
can read to learn how to insert the rectangle with text in it as a picture.
I tried Word Art and apparently don't know enough about that to be able to
get the text to rotate.

Any help you are willing to give would be so appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Jezebel]

Create your rectangle and add your text (using a textbox might be simpler).
Copy it. Go to Edit > PasteSpecial and select one of the picture formats.

You can rotate the picture freely; but the text is no longer editable
(because it's now a picture, not text). You might want to experiment with
different picture formats -- some tend to disintegrate if you re-size or
rotate them.

 

[Yawrood]

ooooohhh Jezebel -- it WORKS !!!!! Thank you

Create your rectangle and add your text (using a textbox might be simpler).
Copy it. Go to Edit > PasteSpecial and select one of the picture formats.

You can rotate the picture freely; but the text is no longer editable
(because it's now a picture, not text). You might want to experiment with
different picture formats -- some tend to disintegrate if you re-size or
rotate them.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Much earlier in the discussion, you were told to copy the object and use
Paste Special to paste as a picture. When Bob Buckland asked, "Did you
select a graphic format from Paste Special, such as PNG?" you answered yes.
I think you can forgive us for assuming you were already doing (and knew how
to do) what we had suggested.

 

[Stephanie]

Much earlier in the discussion, you were told to copy the object and use
Paste Special to paste as a picture. When Bob Buckland asked, "Did you
select a graphic format from Paste Special, such as PNG?" you answered yes.
I think you can forgive us for assuming you were already doing (and knew how
to do) what we had suggested.

 

[Stephanie]

Hi, Suzanne -- I've been reading about rotating text in a rectangle. Can you
tell me how to rotate just a line of text? I've tried your suggestions to
date and nothing seems to work.
Stephanie

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It depends how you want to rotate it. You can rotate text in a text box,
table, or frame 90 degrees (a quarter turn) right or left but not at any
other angle (Format | Text Direction). To rotate at any other angle, you can
use WordArt (which is a graphic), or you can copy the text and use Edit |
Paste Special to paste it as a picture and then rotate it. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/UpsideDownText.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/rotate_text.htm.