How to Change the Orientation of Text in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word 2007 is a great word processing program, which not only allows its users to use it for traditional writing functions, but also change the orientation of the text in the text boxes, tables and other drawing objects.
Changing the text direction greatly helps in designing a poster, or when you do not want all the text written on your document’s title page in the same direction.
The process of changing the text direction in MS Word 2007 is really easy, provided that you know the right steps.
Instructions
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First of all, you need to launch MS Word 2007. For that purpose, select the “Start” menu and move your cursor over the “Programs” section. You will now see a new menu popping up on your screen, where you need to locate and move your cursor over the Microsoft Office folder. This will open a new submenu, containing all the programs that came with the Microsoft Office suite of productivity products that you purchased.
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Click the Microsoft Word 2007 to launch the program. Now you need to click on the “Insert” tab, located at the left side of the main ribbon present on the top of MS Word window. You will see the “Text Box” icon appearing at the left side of the “Text” section bar. Click on it, and select any style from the drop-down menu.
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Click in the centre of the text box that just appeared in the editor section of the MS Word window, and type your desired text.
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Once you are done with editing the text in the text box, you can resize the text box according to the amount of text available in it.
For that purpose you will have to click and drag the blue circles present at the corners, or the blue boxes, present on the sides of the box. -
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Once again, click in the centre of the text box, and you will witness that the text will get highlighted in blue colour.
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Now you need to open the “Format” tab, and click the “Text Direction” button present at the left corner of the ribbon. This will change the orientation of the text in the text box.
