You may ask why you would need upside down text. Well, I needed to print a CD jewel case, so I went to 'more templates online' and grabbed one of the 2 jewel case templates that came up (thank you for making this so easy OO), but frankly, the implementation was stupidly ineffecient.
I wanted to recreate it using tables & fields so that I could enter the title once and have it appear in the 3 required places for a jewel case. And yes, on the sheet that goes in the back of the jewel case, the text needs to have its baselines facing each other. I have no idea whether you can do this in Word or not.
Firstly - this must be done in a table, it uses some of the table formatting controls to achieve the affect.
EXPERTS: the below instructions put succinctly, as I found them in the OO forum:
"Format Character, rotate 270° + Table, Text Flow, Right to left vertical."
- Select the text that you need to display upside now (in my case it also happens to be field/variable)
- Right click and select Character (or go to Format | Character)
- Change the rotation to 270 degrees. (Bear in mind that this is going to stuff up the height of your row - so if you're needing fixed cell heights like I did for the jewel case, once you've finished this exercise you're going to have to go back and correct the cell height).
- Now select the Row in the table that contains this text
- Right click and select 'Table...'
- Go to the Text Flow tab
- Change the Text Direction to Right to Left (Vertical)
- I'd also suggest changing the vertical alignment to center. Depends on what you're trying to achieve though.
- Click ok, and then, as mentioned in point 3, go back and fix up your row height if required. Lovely upside down text. QED.
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Thank you.
Amazing! Taken me 2 hours to try and work this out. Thought it was going to be so easy. Thanks!
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