Depending on the font you are using in your document, you might try either of these: In this case, you can best solve the problem by relying on Unicode characters that will do the trick. Mike, however, is dealing with a single letter. The approaches detailed in that tip are best suited for larger selections of text. Both of these approaches have been covered in the tip named Upside-Down Printing. You could, if desired, use WordArt or rotate the text in a text box. There are multiple ways that you can accomplish this task. Mike wonders how he can invert the letter A in this title. One of the anime kits he has completed is titled with an inverted (upside down) letter A.
(Of course, you would have to rotate the paper by 180 degrees for each printing pass.In one of his Word documents Mike keeps a list of model kits on which he's worked. Second, you could simply put your paper through the printer twice-once for the rightside-up text and once for the upside-down text. First, you could use a different program (such as Publisher) that supports upside-down text. Your text box is rotated 90 degrees to the right, which means your text is now rotated 180 degrees.įinally, perhaps the two easiest solutions don't even use Word at all. Choose the Rotate Right 90 Degrees option.Word provides some options for rotating your text box. Click the Rotate tool in the Arrange group.Your text is rotated 90 degrees to the right. Choose the Rotate All Text 90 Degrees option.Word provides some options for rotating your text. Click the Change Text Direction tool, in the Text group.(This tab is visible only when you complete step 3.)
Enter into the text box any text you want it to contain.You could use a similar approach using a text box instead of a table. Formatting text using this approach can be a bit challenging, but for some uses it may be an easy way to achieve the desired result. The result, of course, is that you have text that is 180 degrees in relation to each other, which means it appears upside down when printed. Rotate the text in the right cell by 90 degrees to the right.Rotate the text in the left cell by 90 degrees to the left.In the right cell, place the text you want to be upside-down.In the left cell, place the text you want to be rightside-up.Create a document using landscape orientation.This capability can be utilized to achieve the look that is wanted. Why? Because the upside-down information is not really text, but a graphic image.Īs mentioned earlier, Word allows you to rotate text 90 degrees either left or right. Of course, if you want to make changes to the upside-down text, you can't do so without redoing all these steps. Now you can position your upside-down text anywhere you want. The graphic image (which is your text) appears in the Word document. This copies the graphic image back to the Clipboard. In most graphics programs, this selects the entire canvas, which is your pasted and rotated text. Use whatever commands your graphics program provides to rotate the image by 180 degrees.Accordingly, you may need to make some modifications in this particular step.) (Different graphics programs have different requirements for pasting information. The text should now be within your graphics program. Switch to your graphics program and press Ctrl+V.Press Ctrl+C to copy the paragraphs to the Clipboard.Select the paragraphs you want to ultimately be upside down.Within Word, type and format your text as you want it.If you have access to a graphics program you could also try these steps: (This is very similar to the WordArt approach, as you are dealing with non-Word objects within Word.) For instance, you could create a fully rotated text object within PowerPoint and then insert it in your Word document. The only drawback to this is that WordArt doesn't give you the range of text control that Word does, and it was never meant to handle large selections of text, such as a quarter page or a half page of information.Īnother option is to create your text in a different application and then insert it into Word as an object. Your text is actually saved in your document as a graphics object, which Word allows you to rotate freely on the page. First, if the information you have to print upside down is fairly short, you could use WordArt. There are several workarounds you can try, however. (To print something upside down you need to rotate it 180 degrees.) Unfortunately, Word doesn't have a way to easily do this, instead only allowing you to rotate text 90 degrees left or right. For some printing jobs, you may have a need to print text both rightside-up and upside-down on the same piece of paper.
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