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Ken Nielsen
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January 8, 2024
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Accidentally rotated text in the bounding box - How to restore to level?

  • January 8, 2024
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It's so easy to 'touch' the cursor to a surface in the document while editing text and now to find out I accidentally rotated, not the bounding box 'A' but an internal box 'B' that seems to be the 'level' or 'rotated' state for the text itself. This is beyond me to know how to restore this as all of the text in this document should be level and I need to restore it. What do you recommend? Is it possible to bring this back to level?

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Correct answer rob day

Hi @Ken Nielsen , If you have accidentally grabbed a text frame‘s corner point with the Direct Selection tool, you can set it back to square with Pathfinder > Convert Shape

 

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James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 8, 2024

You appear to have two text boxes overlapping.

 

There should not be two boxes around text. All text should be in a single text frame, whether it's the main flowing-text frame on each page, or a separate text box. A separate box should only be used to hold a small(ish) amount of text so that it can be styled as, say, a pull quote or callout, or a caption. In general, there should only be one text frame per page, with the main text flow in it.

 

Unless there is something more complex than a text page layout going on here, you need to delete one of those text frames; the one that isn't holding the text, the one not apparently rotated here, is a good candidate.

 

Once you've done that, you can either delete a rotated or otherwise messed up text frame on a page and drag a new one into place by clicking on the 'next frame' button of the prior page's frame — like this:

 

or, the easier method and the direct answer to your question, simply snap the rotated frame back to 90 degrees. Hover over the upper right corner and drag until the frame snaps to the margin guidelines. You can also fix it by selecting the rotated frame, and in the rotation field of the Control Panel at the top of the ID interface, set the value to 0:

 

Also, for all such "oops" situations... Ctrl-Z is your best friend. 🙂

rob day
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 8, 2024

You appear to have two text boxes overlapping.

 

It could be a text frame inside of another text frame as you suggest, but a text frame that has been changed into a polygon also shows two bounding boxes when it is Selected, which seems to be what @Ken Nielsen  is showing—can’t tell without seeing the entire frame?

 

Polygon on the right, rotation on the left:

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 8, 2024

Ah. You've a better eye than I 'ave, Gunga Rob.

rob day
Community Expert
rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 8, 2024

Hi @Ken Nielsen , If you have accidentally grabbed a text frame‘s corner point with the Direct Selection tool, you can set it back to square with Pathfinder > Convert Shape

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 8, 2024

Good answer for that problem, but I think it's a simple rotation error here. But knowing how to restore a distorted shape is a very useful snippet.