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Maxflyer 29th September 2006 09:37

MS Word - Text Box
 
I am trying to make a digram in MS Word and want to know if I can make the text in a text box go from bottom to top rather than left to right, eg. like a the text on the axis of a graph.

Hope that makes sense.

All help gratefully appreciated.

MF

oncemorealoft 29th September 2006 09:45

Go to 'Insert' pull down menu at top of page, pull down and select 'text box' and you should see an option for either 'horizontal' or 'vertical'.

I'm on Windows XP professional and MS Word 2003

Hope this helps.

Maxflyer 29th September 2006 09:48

Tried that and just got a text box, no options!

It may be because I am using MS Word 2000?

Thanks anyway - back to the drawing board!

airborne_artist 29th September 2006 10:28

Works for me in Word 97, so can't imagine it's been disabled for 2000. I get a little formattting box open up, floating free, not on the menu bar.

Mornington Crescent 29th September 2006 10:31

Once you have your text box and the cursor in it - select Format from the tool bar then text direction.

Maxflyer 29th September 2006 10:41

airborne_artist - couldn't get that to work!

Mornington Crescent - Thanks, spot on solution.

Thanks to all.


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