I'm trying to make some place cards using a Word table. How do I rotate the
text horizontally 180 deg so that one side prints upside down? Thanks for
any help!

From the View menu, select Toolbars and check the Tables and Borders item
and then use the "Change Text Direction" button on that tool bar. You will
be able to rotate oneside by plus ninety degrees and the other by minus
ninety degrees, thereby resulting in 180 degrees between the two.

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"RachelN" wrote in message
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I'm trying to make some place cards using a Word table. How do I rotate
the
text horizontally 180 deg so that one side prints upside down? Thanks for
any help!

Thanks! I wonder why Microsoft doesn't add this feature. They have text
displaying every other way.

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

From the View menu, select Toolbars and check the Tables and Borders item
and then use the "Change Text Direction" button on that tool bar. You will
be able to rotate oneside by plus ninety degrees and the other by minus
ninety degrees, thereby resulting in 180 degrees between the two.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"RachelN" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to make some place cards using a Word table. How do I rotate
the
text horizontally 180 deg so that one side prints upside down? Thanks for
any help!

Setup the page to landscape and use text boxes so u can rotate text 90 deg.
In portrait is not posible to rotate text upside down.

Ivan

"RachelN" wrote:

I'm trying to make some place cards using a Word table. How do I rotate the
text horizontally 180 deg so that one side prints upside down? Thanks for
any help!

[Sadler]

"RachelN" wrote:

I'm trying to make some place cards using a Word table. How do I rotate the
text horizontally 180 deg so that one side prints upside down? Thanks for
any help!

Changing the "Text Direction" in Tables and Text-boxes is the only way if
you want to mail-merge names onto the cards.

You can also place bitmaps if you are careful but Word graphic elements move
around unpredictably if you try to place them on the cards. A bug that has
been there since Word 2003 and is still in Word 2007. Very poor show!