Text Boxes - following the angle of the box, not the horizontal?

[suzannee2072493]

Hi. I am new to Illustrator - and need some help.

I am making a Year Book, and I want the text boxes to sit at different angles. At the moment I can rotate the angle of the text box, but the text remains perfectly horizontal. I would like the text to follow the angle of the box.

How do I do this?

Thank you in advance for your advice!

Suzie

[Jacob Bugge]

Suzanne,

Are you using the Area Type Tool so the text adapts to/fits within the box, or just the Type Tool with a separate box round it? In the former case, everything should rotate together, in the latter case you can Group text and box (select both and Ctrl/Cmd+G).

[suzannee2072493]

Hi Jacob, I make a box, and then use the Area Type Tool which drops latin text into my box. Then I select all, but when I rotate it using the selection arrow it still keeps the text horizontal, while the box changes angle. Clearly I am not doing something right!!

[Jacob Bugge]

Suzanne,

You should do what Kurt says, always.

[Kris Hunt · Accepted solution]

Make your text box by dragging with the text tool. The way you're doing it now, you're telling Illustrator you want horizontal text to conform to the selected shape, which happens to be a rectangle. If you then turn that shape into a diagonally slanted rectangle, the horizontal text will obediently conform to a diagonally slanted rectangle.

[Caroline5CD7]

I have the same issue! I drag a box with the Type tool, type my text over the Lorem Upsum that auto fills it. Then I try to turn the box with the curved arrow that appears when i move the curser (using the Select tool) The box obligingly tilts and the text disappears in an attempt to stay horizontal. I'm in CC2021 Am I supposed to change a setting somewhere?

[Kurt Gold]

Try to rotate with the genuine Rotate tool or the Free Transform tool. Or use the Transform palette.

[Caroline5CD7]

OK that does work. 

Any reason why it should now take several tools and clicks what used to take one tool and one click and drag?

Really?

[Monika Gause]

OK that does work. 

Any reason why it should now take several tools and clicks what used to take one tool and one click and drag?

Really?

By @Caroline5CD7

It has always worked that way since at least CS2

[John Mensinger]

It's one of the differences between Area Type and Point Type.

Area Type is presumed to be paragraphical and flowable, so basic transform of the frame reshapes the paragraph while keeping the type horizontal. The dedicated transform tools are needed otherwise.

Point Type would behave the way you want, or expected.