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Channel: Helen Bradley
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Hello, I'm Helen Bradley.
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Welcome to this video tutorial.
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In this tutorial we're going to take some
of the mystery out of rotating text in Microsoft
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Word.
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Before we get started with this tutorial let's
have a look and see what it is that we're
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trying to do.
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What we're trying to do is rotate text on
a page not even necessarily 180 degrees or
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90 degrees on the page but we may also want
to rotate our text through a different rotation.
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This one is just not behaving nicely for me
right now but we may want to rotate our text
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to 45 degrees or some different value.
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And that has not been easy.
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In earlier versions of Word from Word 2007
backwards including unfortunately Word 2007
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none of these options, well only one of these
options, was actually really available to
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us.
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But I'm going to start in Word 2013 because
there are heaps of options in Word 2013 and
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then in a minute we'll go back to Word 2007
and see what your options are for Word 2007
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and Word 2003.
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Now in 2013 there are heaps of options.
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One of them is Insert Textbox.
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I mean you can just draw a textbox on the
screen and put your text in here.
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Now textboxes can be rotated.
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So we can rotate it through any degree and
you can see that the text is rotating with
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the textbox.
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If you don't like the edges on it that's fine.
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Drawing Tools, Format tab, Shape Outline,
No Outline and now your text is rotated but
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you can't see the outline of the box that
it's in.
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You can of course format your text.
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So any of the text that we're talking about
in any of these items can be sized and colored
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and formatted with the font of choice, etc.
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So a textbox is one of your options.
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One of the other options is a shape, Insert
Shapes and then choose a shape.
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I'm going to choose this shape here, draw
it on the screen, type my text in it, size
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it as we could with any of the other options
and then we can rotate it.
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So let's grab the shape and as we rotate the
shape the text is rotated with it.
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Now this did not happen in Word 2007 or Word
2003.
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The new graphics engine in Word 2010 allowed
us to do that so that's why we can get it
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in 2010 and 2013.
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So that's another option.
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Any of the shapes can have text placed in
them and it can be rotated.
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Now one of the options we used to use which
is now not really quite so attractive because
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we have so many other options is WordArt,
Insert WordArt.
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And we'll just select one of these WordArt
objects and then we can type our text in here.
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And this can be rotated and also the text
can be formatted.
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It can be turned upside down.
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As I said it's been traditionally one of the
options that we have had for rotating text
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because it's just been so good at it.
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But now we have so many other options we really
don't need to resort to WordArt anymore.
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Now there is one other option that you can
use.
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It's not one I particularly like but it is
an option and that is just a single cell table.
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This is a table with one row and one column
and I've placed my text in it.
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With my text in it I can choose the Table
Tools, Layout tab and click this Text Direction
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option and there are three options for rotating
the text inside this single cell table.
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But as I said this is the least appropriate
option nowadays because we just have so many
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other really good options in Word 2010 and
2013.
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But now let's take a trip back in time and
let's head back to Word 2007 because things
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aren't nearly as happy in Word 2007.
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Let's go first to our textbox, Insert Textbox,
Draw Textbox, Draw Textbox on the Screen and
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unfortunately this textbox even though its
wrapping is in front of text it is not going
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anywhere.
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You can't rotate it.
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So the only thing that you can do is change
the text direction and it's one of those three
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options that we saw inside a table cell in
Word 2013 and Word 2010.
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So this is your only option here.
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You get three versions of rotating your text.
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Now if one of these is what you want then
that may work for you.
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If you want your text rotated to this sort
of angled up 90 degree rotation then use it.
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It has always been one of the options that
we've had.
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It's just that we can't get 45 degrees or
anything out of a textbox.
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We can get rid of the edges of a textbox,
Shape Outline, No Outline.
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And so you can have text rotated on a page
but it doesn't actually look like it is in
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a box.
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Now the shapes option is really, really sad.
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We're going to have a look at it but it is
very, very sad.
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Here's our shape.
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I'm going to type my text in it.
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Well, for a start when I start typing my text
it doesn't actually go in there.
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I have to right click and choose Add Text.
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I can rotate the shape but unfortunately the
text doesn't rotate with it.
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It just gets left behind.
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So this is just really, really tragic.
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It's obviously not an option that you would
even consider using.
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So that's shapes in Word 2007.
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It's also in Word 2003.
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So write off shapes.
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They're simply not going to do it for you.
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We go back now to WordArt which unfortunately
looked really, really horrible in earlier
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versions of Word but it is a really good way
of rotating text.
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The trick with this is that you really want
to make sure that you select a good font.
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So let's go and see if one of my favorites
Myriad Pro is here, which it is.
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So I've got now my font, Rotate is done in
Myriad Pro.
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I don't have a color yet but I can get that
in a minute.
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Here is my WordArt object.
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It's stuck actually behind the shape so let's
just go and get it.
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And now I can do things with this text.
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Firstly I'm going to have to change the text
wrapping because by default it is In Line
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with Text but if I choose Square or in fact
anything else it will now rotate.
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And unlike any other rotation option that
we have this one will rotate anyway we want
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it.
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So really WordArt is your best option if you
want rotated text in versions of Word that
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are earlier than Word 2010 because the graphics
engine in 2007 wasn't changed unfortunately.
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Now you do get some options here.
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You can choose your shape fill.
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Now the shape fill of the shape here is actually
the text letters.
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It's not the box that it's in because you
don't actually have a box behind this WordArt.
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But you can choose Outline, Text.
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You can change the text itself.
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You can edit the text.
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You can get some good effects if you're just
really careful with it and you just try and
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get something that doesn't look too WordArt
like and actually looks like text.
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If you want a color behind it then you'll
need to put a shape behind it.
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So let's just go and get a round edge shape
and let's actually rotate the shape.
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So say we wanted to have our text in a box
like this then I would put my textbox in a
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WordArt shape and then I would create a shape
for it to go over.
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I would rotate these two to the same rotation
and place the text on top of the shape.
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Now it's gone underneath the shape.
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All we need to do is to right click one of
them, well I've managed to get the shape here,
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and change its order and send it to the back.
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So now we have a piece of text in a box rotated
inside Word 2007 and we've done that with
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a WordArt object and a shape placed behind
it.
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So you really need to be a bit creative in
Word 2007 and Word 2003 for getting rotated
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text.
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A textbox is an option if you're happy with
one of the three text rotation features that
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it offers.
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Otherwise WordArt and then if you need to
place it in a filled shape then just put a
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shape behind it.
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Obviously things change a lot with Word 2013
and Word 2010 and we get all these rotation
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options that we did not have in earlier versions.
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I'm Helen Bradley.
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Thank you for joining me for this video tutorial.
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Look out for more video tutorials on this
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