Comments on: Rotating Text

By: pacecou

pacecou — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:52:00 +0000

I TRY USING THE WORD ART AND ROTATE 180

By: dragon

dragon — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:41:00 +0000

depending on what you want to do, but if it is intended for printing, you could also change your pagelayout to landscape and turn 90 and -90 degree’s

By: Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:48:00 +0000

After trying for a long time I just created a text box and typed what I was looking for in the text box and was able to turn the text box upside down. I also like the idea of upside down font. That was cool.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:31:00 +0000

OMG! Someone's already created an upside-down font! You put it in C:WINDOWSFonts, it instantly appears in Excel, and all the Excel Text functions work with it! Some results are surprising because Excel doesn't know we're spelling words backwards (haha). It is UPSIDJ__.TTF, called Ingrimayne Type, product # 164986, found at http://new.myfonts.com/ It sort-of looks like Calibri (except upside-down)!

By: Quakeboy

Quakeboy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:20:00 +0000

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/upside_down_text_excel.aspx

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0000

I know how to do it. Create your own upside-down font & type out things SDRAWKCAB. Do it via Start > Run > eudcedit.exe used in conjunction with Character Map found in All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. Notes: *It takes a bit of work to figure it out, *It works, *Be careful to follow All the instructions or it messes-up your machine, *No-one else will be able to read it unless you give them a print-out or you give them the font file (and they insert it in the right place).
> be careful..

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing Ed Kitlas,

Had this site been named "dailydoseofcorel" then maybe your tip would have helped!

Thanks to everyone else who gave tips instead of bragging about some other program.

By: James Cox

James Cox — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:25:00 +0000

In Excel 2007, text added to shapes flips upside down if the shape is flipped - however, a left-right flip doesn't do a left-right reverse (so you still can't read a workbook printout in a mirror...).

Actually, I'd love to know how to keep the text right-side up when a Excel 2007 shape is vertically flipped, but haven't found a way.

Well really I have - but it would be evil to inflict on anyone who had to maintain / extend an Exce 2007 workbook. A shape created in an Excel 2003 .xls that is opened with Excel 2007 and converted into a Excel 2007 .xlsx or .xlsm keeps the older behavior where vertically flipping the shape doesn't flip the text.

James

By: David C

David C — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:46:00 +0000

... And you can also use the "Camera" tool. Select the cells, apply "Camera", click were you want to paste the copy/picture of your cells. Then select the object/picture created, right click "format picture" and rotate it as you want. The picture keeps a dynamic link with the initially selected cells.

In excel 2003, you'll find the camera tool via the menu "view" / toolbars / customize / commands / category = tools / commands = camera.

In excel 2007: office button / excel options / customize / all commands / camera

Unfortunatly there is no help item on the camra tool!

By: Jon Wittwer

Jon Wittwer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:36:00 +0000

You can also use Word Art and rotate the Word Art object 180 degrees. You can link the text in the Word Art to a cell by clicking on the Word Art object and entering =A1 in the formula bar. This works in Excel 2003 – haven’t checked in other versions. I think I like Juan’s Paste Picture Link method the best.