Rotating text

[L. Timm]

I teach a class that lets college students "feel-somewhat"
what it could be like to have a learning disability. I
want to take text in Word (or even Powerpoint for that
matter)and make it "flip" backwards - so you would have to
use a mirror to read it. I have done this in a program
called Appleworks but am trying to do this with Word.
Thanks,
Larry

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Larry,

Word doesn't have any way to reverse text, only rotate it 90 degrees
left or right. However, you can get a font called Times Mirror in
which each character is mirror-imaged. It's available for download at
http://www.twinmedia.net/abfonts/html/t3.htm, and as far as I can tell
it's not copyrighted.

You would have to type the text in the reverse order, or use a macro
to do that, so that the words will run right to left.

If you want to take regular text and *print* it reversed on paper,
look at the dialog you get by pressing the Preferences button in the
File > Print dialog. Some printer drivers have a "mirror image" or "T
shirt decal" option that can flip the whole page. But this won't
appear flipped on the screen.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi there,

Or you could select your text, copy it, paste special as a bitmap, then flip
the bitmap.

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