Rotate Text Box In Word

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Oct 18, 2020 Click and drag the 'Rotate' icon ⟳. Dragging the icon to the left will rotate the text box in a counterclockwise motion, while dragging it to the right will rotate the text box in a clockwise motion. 9 Remove the black text box. Unfortunately, Word does not allow you to rotate a text box. Instead, you must resize the text box to achieve the desired effect. You can do that by using the handles that appear on the text box when you select it, but a more precise way is by following these steps if you are using Word 2007: Right-click on the text box. Word displays a Context. You need to rotate the text by selecting the text box and then you need to make sure that you click the drawing toolbar then 'Arrange Rotate'. There are several options under the rotate icon which you can apply to rotate the text box within the Word document. The first one is to rotate the box right to 90 degrees. To rotate text in a text box in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, follow the steps below: Select the text box (the eight handles will appear). You should now see the text box Feature Bar (a bar along the top of the window with buttons marked Caption, Content, Cell, etc.). On the Feature Bar, select Content.

Once a text box has been added to your document, you may want to rotate it and thereby change its orientation. Unfortunately, Word does not allow you to rotate a text box. Instead, you must resize the text box to achieve the desired effect. You can do that by using the handles that appear on the text box when you select it, but a more precise way is by following these steps if you are using Word 2007:

  1. Right-click on the text box. Word displays a Context menu.
  2. Choose the Format Text Box option from the Context menu. Word displays the Format Text Box dialog box.
  3. Make sure the Size tab is selected. (Note that the Rotation control on the Size tab is grayed out. You cannot use this control with text boxes; it is only available with AutoShapes.) (See Figure 1.)

    4. Figure 1. The Size tab of the Format Text Box dialog box.

  4. Make note of the height and width settings for the text box.
  5. Switch the height and width settings by typing them into the appropriate boxes on the dialog box.
  6. Click on OK.

If you are using Word 210 or Word 2013, follow these steps instead:

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  1. Click once on the text box to select it.
  2. Display the Format tab of the ribbon. (This tab is available if you successfully complete step 1.)
  3. Look in the Size group at the right side of the ribbon and make note of the height and width settings for the text box.
  4. Switch the height and width settings by typing them into the appropriate boxes in the Size group.

Notice that the rotation (resizing) of the text box does not result in the rotation of text within the text box. Instead, the text is simply reformatted to the new text box dimensions.

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In a Reporting Services paginated report, you can rotate a text box in different directions:

  • Horizontally

  • Vertically (rotated 90 degrees, with text reading from top to bottom, except East Asian text characters)

  • Rotated by 270 degrees (text reading from bottom to top).

Because you rotate the text box not the text, the rotation applies to all the text in the text box. You cannot specify different directions for parts of the text. Size the column width and the row height manually to accommodate the rotated text.

Rotate Text Box In Wordperfect

The WritingMode property, which you use to specify text orientation, isn't in the Text Box Properties dialog box. It's in the Properties pane and set the property there.

To rotate text

  1. Create a report or open an existing report, and add a text box to the design surface.

  2. Select the text box that you want to rotate.

  3. If the Properties pane is not open, on the View tab, select the Properties check box.

  4. In the Properties pane, find the WritingMode property and select the text orientation to apply to the text box.

    Note

    When the properties in the Properties pane are organized into categories, WritingMode is in the Localization category.

  5. In the list box, select Horizontal, Vertical, or Rotate270.

Rotate Text Box In Word 2016

See Also

Rotate Text Box In Word Document

Text Boxes (Report Builder and SSRS)
Tutorial: Format Text (Report Builder)