Rotating text in a space shape

[usenetposter2005]

In Visio 2003,

I've created a number of new composite shapes to represent offices for
a floor plan. These shapes include a space shape, that I have named.
The problem is, if I rotate the room, the text associated with the
space shape is rotated as well and I cannot seem to find an easy way to
rotate just the text within the space shape. As it stands I have a
number of these objects with the labels going every which way, and I
would like to rotate them all to be readable in the same direction. I
can only think of two ways to do this, and they both seem to be a pain.

1. Delete the existing space shape, create a new one so that the text
will go the correct way.

2. Ungroup the space shape and rotate the underlying text area. This
only works if the desired direction is a mirror of the current layout.

What I find incredible is that the functionality exists to freely move
the text inside the space shape but that there appears to be no easy
way to do the rotation. Maybe I'm missing the obvious?

 

[Crack]

visio 2002 had shape text rotation tool, it would seem vis 2003 does not have
the same fuunction ( i may be wrong). try the following work around: select
the shape right click to access the shapesheet , scroll to text transform
section, adjust the value in the text angle field.

 

[Crack]

correction vis 2003 does have text rotation tool.look for a circled A aboard
the standard toolbar.

note also, the text angle can be set in the shapesheet to -> gravity , which
will always keep the text readable no matter how you rotate the shape.