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Default free rotate text within a shape

I used pasting the clipboard contents as a picture.
Emory

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Glad to help. Which solution did you use? WordArt, or pasting the clipboard
contents as a picture?

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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"Emory" wrote in message
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This solution was perfect. Thank you ! I plan to use this qite often.
Emory

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Nope. If you reshape a WordArt object so that the text has a "normal"
shape,
instead of a psychedelic on, you can free rotate it there.

If you have too much text or if a WordArt object isn't quite right, you'd
need to convert the text into a graphic.To do this, select the text box
by
clicking the outside border/edge, and press Ctrl+C to copy it to the
clipboard.

Choose Edit - Paste Special, and paste the contents of the clipboard into
the document as Picture (Windows Metafile). Set the wrapping (method
depend
on which version of Word you're using... Windows XP doesn't tell me what
version of Office you're using; but you should be able to double click
the
object then choose the Layout tab) so that it's something like behind
text
or in front of text, and you should now be able to rotate it using the
green
handle.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Emory" wrote in message
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using windows xp, Would like to know if you can rotate text within a
shape
to
match the rotated angle of the shape.
Thank you,Emory