How to rotate text with type tool and resize text frame

[Jacek Sawicki]

With every new adobe update there's something i hate because it's changing something that works normal to something that's stupid.

So there's a text. Text is inserted into frame (area, selection - i don't know how to name it) using normal, default type tool. Now, i need to rotate this text - i need the whole text block to be vertical. So... im rotating it, and only frame rotates, not text.... !@&@#^*&^ ok, there has to be solution. So i double click the circle outside to convert to "Point Type" as it's the only thing i can find in illustrator to allow me to rotate text.

And now i want to resize frame, to fit into the project...

Nope.

After converting it to Point Type i cannot resize frame anymore....

Great job Adobe!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Has always been that way.

To rotate an area text use the rotate tool. Or the Free transform tool.

[Jacek Sawicki]

I've checked in CS6 cause i couldn't believe it was like that before. You're right. It seems for years i didn't have to rotate texts like that, as my main program is Photoshop.

It seems my overall frustration about Adobe updates (after they've changed to subscription i feel every new big update makes using Adobe products more difficult and unfriendly) affected my memory.

Well, that's something i always didn't like - every Adobe product works different way...