-Use a text box if you want to show text upside down or upside up.

This doesn't work in Word. PowerPoint textboxes can show text upside down;
but not Word's.

Yes, it DOES work in WORD!

Switch the Tables & Borders OR the Text Box toolbar on & use the icon(s):
should be visible when the toolbar is visible.

PS: updise down & upside up is also available for text in tables.

"Jezebel" wrote:


-Use a text box if you want to show text upside down or upside up.

This doesn't work in Word. PowerPoint textboxes can show text upside down;
but not Word's.

No, it doesn't. Text can be rotated 90° to the left or right in a text
box or table cell, but not 180° unless the text is converted to a graphic.

AA2e72E wrote:

Yes, it DOES work in WORD!

Switch the Tables & Borders OR the Text Box toolbar on & use the icon(s):
should be visible when the toolbar is visible.

PS: updise down & upside up is also available for text in tables.

"Jezebel" wrote:


-Use a text box if you want to show text upside down or upside up.

This doesn't work in Word. PowerPoint textboxes can show text upside down;
but not Word's.

Aren't you talking about showing the text upside down i.e the mirror image? I
was talking about the text shown in a vertical line with the first character
either as the first or the last character in the pile.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

No, it doesn't. Text can be rotated 90° to the left or right in a text
box or table cell, but not 180° unless the text is converted to a graphic.

AA2e72E wrote:

Yes, it DOES work in WORD!

Switch the Tables & Borders OR the Text Box toolbar on & use the icon(s):
should be visible when the toolbar is visible.

PS: updise down & upside up is also available for text in tables.

"Jezebel" wrote:


-Use a text box if you want to show text upside down or upside up.

This doesn't work in Word. PowerPoint textboxes can show text upside down;
but not Word's.

To me, "upside down" and "mirror image" are not the same thing, but
anyway... I and Jezebel and the original poster are talking about
rotating text, while you are talking about something else.

AA2e72E wrote:

Aren't you talking about showing the text upside down i.e the mirror image? I
was talking about the text shown in a vertical line with the first character
either as the first or the last character in the pile.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


No, it doesn't. Text can be rotated 90° to the left or right in a text
box or table cell, but not 180° unless the text is converted to a graphic.

AA2e72E wrote:


Yes, it DOES work in WORD!

Switch the Tables & Borders OR the Text Box toolbar on & use the icon(s):
should be visible when the toolbar is visible.

PS: updise down & upside up is also available for text in tables.

"Jezebel" wrote:



-Use a text box if you want to show text upside down or upside up.

This doesn't work in Word. PowerPoint textboxes can show text upside down;
but not Word's.

Aren't you talking about showing the text upside down i.e the mirror
image? I
was talking about the text shown in a vertical line with the first
character
either as the first or the last character in the pile.

Perhaps you should read the subject line more closely. As Garfield says,
Word can do 90 degrees left or right. It can't do upside down or mirror,
and -- relevant to the OP -- it can't do diagonal (ie 45 degrees).

There is a workaround - of sorts - at http://www.gmayor.com/rotate_text.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Jezebel wrote:
Aren't you talking about showing the text upside down i.e the mirror
image? I was talking about the text shown in a vertical line with
the first character either as the first or the last character in the
pile.

Perhaps you should read the subject line more closely. As Garfield
says, Word can do 90 degrees left or right. It can't do upside down
or mirror, and -- relevant to the OP -- it can't do diagonal (ie 45
degrees).