Using Free Rotate in my tools?

[Nightowl]

I am unable to keep Free Rotate in my tools and use it in Drawing. What
should I do to use all of the tools available?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

The Free Rotate tool will be grayed out (not available) if:
1. You don't have a picture or drawing object selected, or
2. The picture or drawing object is not formatted as "float
over text" (Word 97), or it is formatted as "inline with text"
(Word 2000, 2002, and 2003).

 

[Becky at Business Properties]

My free rotate button is gone from my toolbar. I went into the tools and
Commands and tried to drag it bag into the Drawing toolbar as well as the
Word Art tool bar. It won't go. It was there previously as i' ve used it many
time. You can free rotate a word art that is placed into a text box or other
box. How can I get it back to the toolbar?

 

[JJGS]

I am having the same issue on 2 machines. Was there an update that has
screwed up WordArt?

 

[HOVAWART]

How do I rotate in tiny increments? When I hover over the circular arrow
indicating my graphic is ready to be rotated, it doe not move in as fine of
detail as I require, rather almost acting as though it were snapping to grid,
which I've turned off. What is the fix or keyboard shortcut for this?

 

[Mary Sauer]

2007?
Right-click the object, click Format Autoshapes (or object), Size tab.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Mary says, you can set the rotation by degree in the Format AutoShape
dialog, but you can also override the grid by pressing Alt.

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