Text Box Orientation Problems

[calvindebeverly]

This may be difficult to explain. Here is what I am trying to do. I want to
print in landscape mode on two sides of one page (my printer will do that
automatically) so that when you rotate the page in space around a central
axis or look through the paper through strong light that the print is the
same and not one side with the letters readable and the other side with the
letters up side down. Now if I could rotate a text box that might solve my
problem. On page two or the reverse side I could just turn the text boxes up
side down and that should make them come out right on the back. But I just
can't find anyway to rotate a text box. Can that be done? The help file says
that you need a text box rather than a text frame in order to "Flip or
Rotate" the text box. So I assume you can do it. But I can't figure out how.
What would be best would be a switch to print the second page with the
information reversed as sometimes you need in manuals so that you get a two
page conglomerate picture of one big thing.

Calvin De Beverly

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm assuming you're not really asking for a mirror image on the verso page
but in fact wanting the top of the page to be the same on both sides. When
you duplex, you can choose (in your printer Properties) to flip the page on
the short or long edge. In this case you need to flip on the short edge. If
the entire document is landscape, then this will be easy, but if the
landscape page is part of a portrait document, then you may have to make a
different choice and print the landscape section separately. FWIW, a
landscape page in a portrait document should always have the top of the page
to the left (not toward the center or gutter).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org