[Solved] Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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CybrMatt
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[Solved] Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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I have a pretty standard document in Writer 2.4. At the bottom of the document, I want to create a few "tabs"... basically a couple lines of text, oriented at 90 degrees. I've discovered that highlighting text and selecting Character gives me a rotation/scaling option, but it doesn't respect newlines. It seems to be a useless feature to me... why would you want one rotated line of text with the rest of the line being blank? At any rate, I can't find a way to rotate more than one line of text on the page. In Word, I can accomplish this by inserting a Text Box, positioning it, and using Change Text Direction.
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Re: Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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Use a new line (Shift Enter) instead of a new paragraph.
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Re: Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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If your "tabs" are essentially decorations--i.e., not part of, or connected to, the text or headings of the document--then I suggest you use a graphics text box. As you described, they can have an arbitrary rotation and placement. Writer's support for rotated text content is limited and unintuitive.

If you don't have the Drawing toolbar at the bottom of the Writer window, use View > Toolbars > Drawing to enable it.
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Re: Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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Drawing toolbar: Use the capital T to insert a text box, and type your information. Rotate that [Right Mouse position and size option.] Copy/paste to have several, moving each to where you need it. Change font size to be appropriate.

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Re: Rotating Text 90 Degrees

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The drawing toolbar did the trick; thanks all.
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