[mso] Re: Rotating -90 (left) degrees in PowerPoint Table

Hi Scott,

Yes I have and it is a solution.  There are many 'solutions for this
problem' but none of them are as streamlined as the ability to right click
on a table within PPT and clicking the 'rotate text' check box.

I work in PPT quite extensively and know most of the 'tricks' to getting
around the limitations of the program.  The reason I am wanting to find a
solution is most of the text I enter has to be rotated 'left' in order to
make the client happy and I am really REALLY getting tired of copy,paste,
group, ungroup, link, unlink, nudge, pull, resize, send to front, send to
back, etc etc. ;)

What I find interesting is almost every program I have looked at or worked
with the default 'rotation' when only presented with 'one direction' is to
the left.  Only PPT seems to go to the right.  So maybe this option can be
added to a 'wish list'.

:)

Thanks much for your response.

Carol

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scot Jones" <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:37 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: Rotating -90 (left) degrees in PowerPoint Table


> Hi Carol,
>
> Have you tried . . .
>
> Creating the table in Word, rotating the text direct by -90 degrees,
> then copying to the clipboard.
>
> Once you get to the PowerPoint slide Edit->Paste SPECIAL, and then
> choose the option that says Paste as Microsoft Word Document Object.  I
> think this will solve your problem!
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Carol Parent
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:39 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Rotating -90 (left) degrees in PowerPoint Table
>
> Hello all,
>
> I give up.  I have searched and searched and no solution.
>
> PowerPoint Table.  Options allow you to rotate text +90 degrees (right)
> .  I
> want to turn it -90 degrees (left or three right turns if you prefer).
> I know about text boxes and labels and shapes and etc etc.  I have also
> tried copy and pasting from word and excel.  Unless you copy and paste
> as a
> 'graphic' the text defaults back to horizontal.  I just want to be able
> to
> turn text to the left inside the table cell.  PowerPoint Beta 2003
> doesnt
> have this option either - of if it does its 'hiding' someplace.
>
> Has anyone come up with an 'easy' way of doing this?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Carol
>
>
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