Rotate text

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December 6, 2010
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Hi everyone,

I've typed some text into a text frame and now need to rotate the text 90 degrees. The text frame has round corners so I didn't want to create a separate text frame for the text and then rotate that. So is there a way to rotate the line of text within the one text frame, similar to how you'd do this in Microsoft Word?

Appreciate any advice.

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Harbs.

Legend

How does it work in Word?

Harbs

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JKA@4153Author

Inspiring

If you draw a text box in Word and then type in some text, there's a button on the textbox toolbar called "change text direction". When you click it, the text goes from being positioned horizontally on the top of the text box to the right of the text box. So it's like the text itself is rotated 90 degrees within the text box.

Don't think you can do this in Indesign can you?

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

InDesign isn't Microsoft Word.

There are some things that just work differently.

In InDesign you draw the text frame and you have to rotate the frame the direction that you need it to be in.

It couldn't be simpler to do either, draw a text frame then rotate it using the Rotate Tool or using the Rotate button on the Control Panel at the top of the screen.

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Sajeev Sridharan

Legend

First create round corner frame and using Type Tool (T), double click the object which you created and enter the text and rotate the frame whichever direction you want

Vandy