How to change the direction of the text in Word: options, examples

There are many graphic editors that allow you to make beautiful layouts of announcements, invitations and banners, and place the necessary information in them, turning and transforming it in any way. However, in everyday life, one must be able to beautifully submit even an ordinary text document. A successfully placed inscription is able to completely transform the driest text, attracting attention to it with an unusual design.

In our article, we will talk about how to change the direction of the text in Word, a text editor that creates the very “dry” documents that look very casual without tables, figures and diagrams and do not cause a desire to read them.

Of course, there is also a practical side to the question of changing the direction of the text. It lies in the fact that sometimes simply there is not enough space for standard text placement. In this case, our article will also be useful.

Available ways

For those who are wondering: “Where in the Word do you change the direction of the text?”, We can offer three interesting options:

1. Insert an “Caption” shape that allows you to change the direction of the text inside it in any convenient way.
2. Using a table, down to one single cell, where the text can also be placed in various ways.
3. Placing text vertically by creating columns, changing line spacing and increasing font size.

In the following sections, we will consider each of these methods in more detail. All examples will be given for Microsoft Office 2007.

Change the direction of the text with the inscription

How to change the direction of the text in the "Word" using the inscription? Follow these simple steps:

1. On the "Insert" tab of the "Word" quick access panel, go to the "Text" group and find the "Text" element there.
2. Press once on an element and select the type of inscription “Simple inscription”. An inscription with standard text will be placed in the middle of the sheet.
3. Replace the standard text with the text you need.
4. A new section will appear on the quick access panel - “Work with inscriptions”. When you click on it, the Text group will appear in the left part of the panel, one of the elements of which is the Text Direction. Click on it several times and you will see how the direction of the text changes.
5. Hover over the frame of an object and drag it to the desired location. The only thing left is to remove the frame so that it does not interfere.
6. In the same place, under the “Working with Labels” section in the “Label Styles” group, go to the “Shape outline” drop-down list. Choose from the proposed “No outline”.

Done!

We will see further how to change the direction of the text in Word using a table.

Change the direction of text using a table

We will present the instruction in the form of successive steps:

1. On the "Insert" tab of the quick access panel, go to the "Tables" group and the "Table" element.
2. Using a single cell selection, create a label that consists of one row and one column.
3. Type the desired text inside the cell.
4. Position the mouse cursor inside the cell and right-click to display the context menu.
5. In the list that appears, select "Text Direction".
6. A new window will open in front of you, in which you can change the orientation of the text to the desired one.
7. Adjust the borders of the table frame so that the text fits in it as needed.
8. It remains to get rid of the contour frame. Click inside your cell and you will see that a new tab has appeared on the Quick Access Toolbar - “Working with Tables”. Go to it and then to the "Table Styles" group. The “Borders” element is a drop - down list, when you click on it we need to select the desired item - “There is no border”.

Done!

Are there any other ways to change the direction of the text in Word? Yes, although the latter method is not quite ordinary.

Change the direction of the text by changing the font and line spacing

The last option assumes that the text will be placed strictly vertically.

1. On the blank Word page, type the word or text you want.
2. On the "Page Layout" tab of the quick access panel, go to the "Page Settings" - "Columns" group. In the drop-down list, select “Other columns”, where in the window that opens, specify the maximum possible number of columns - 12.
3. Select your text, and on the "Home" tab in the "Font" group, change the size of the characters to 40.
4. On the same tab, only in the “Paragraph” group, set line spacing with a factor of 0.6.

As a result of this group of steps, you will get text located in several columns strictly vertically. If necessary, add another size to the font, or force Enter after the letters, which turned out to be two in a line.

Of course, of the options for how to change the direction of the text in Word, this option is perhaps not the most successful, because you will not post anything of value in the remaining columns. However, such an option is sometimes required.