Change Text Direction

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According to PowerPoint 2003 help, there is a button on the Formatting
toolbard to toggle between horizontal and vertical text. However, I have not
been able to find the button anywhere. I even looked through the Customize
buttons feature under the Tools option. I even reset the Formatting toolbar
under Add/Remove buttons and I still don't see the Change Text Direction
button anywhere. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Rick,
In order to use that button you should enable support for an East Asian
language, for instance Chinese of Japanese.
If you put the text in an autoshape you could use Format - autoshape - text
box tab - check rotate text within autoshape by 90 degrees.
Luc
 
Rick Hammett said:
According to PowerPoint 2003 help, there is a button on the Formatting
toolbard to toggle between horizontal and vertical text.
Click to expand...

My PPT 2003 Help points out that "The feature or some of the options described
... are only available if support for Japanese [ other East Asian languages ]
is enabled through MS Office Language Settings"

So ... does your PC speak Nihongo? ;-)

If not, you might play with this macro. Select the text box you want to
"verticalize" and run this:

Sub VerticalText()
With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1).TextFrame
.Orientation = msoTextOrientationVerticalFarEast
End With
End Sub



However, I have not
 
The feature or some of the options described topic are only available if
support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean is
enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

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| According to PowerPoint 2003 help, there is a button on the Formatting
| toolbard to toggle between horizontal and vertical text. However, I have
not
| been able to find the button anywhere. I even looked through the
Customize
| buttons feature under the Tools option. I even reset the Formatting
toolbar
| under Add/Remove buttons and I still don't see the Change Text Direction
| button anywhere. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
| --
| RH
 
Hi Rick,
I think the easiest way to accomplish what you want is to use WordArt. Open
the drawing toolbar (View/Toolbars/Drawing) then click on the big blue letter
A (mouse-over will say "Insert WordArt"). Then select a style from the
WordArt gallery (I recommend the one on the top right for plain vertical
text). From there you can select your font type & size, type in your text and
hit Enter.

You can play around with the text appearance from there. Right-clicking on
your new WordArt object will bring up the WordArt toolbar which allows you to
change the text, color, etc.
 
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