As there is no support for vertical text, the only way to rotate text in Pages is to use text boxes.
To do that, click once on the textbox, so it gets eight white diamonds to grab for resizing.
Then hold down the command key and hover the mouse over one of the diamonds. The mouse pointer turns into a bent double arrow, which you can use to rotate the text box.
To rotate in exact multiples of 45 degrees, hold down shift and command at the same time as you rotate.
If you want more precise control of the rotation, you can go to the Inspector > Metrics (the ruler symbol) and then type a value in the field for Angle.
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Great for office rats, which do not use indesign or illustrator :) Thanx a lot!
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Thanks. I don't understand why Apple don't fix this problem and give us text direction in Pages.
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I just tried that but it still won't work...? I'm holding down the command key but the arrow isn't changing when I hover over the resize diamonds and it still won't let me rotate my text... I'm positive I have the text box selected, so what can I try now?
for anonymous 1/27/11
Do all of th above and when you go to rotate hold command & left click.
I was just trying to figure this out today, so THANK YOU!!
Helpful! Cheers!
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Thanks so much for this info, I knew it could be done! Just look at what can be done with a little ingenuity! Thanks again!
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Do you know if its possible to rotate multiple boxes at the same time?
Stuart, highlight all text boxes with shift-click. Then use the inspector method, as described in the last paragraph, and set the rotation angle to 90 or 270. All highligthed text boxes will rotate at the same time.
This was VERY helpful. Thank you
Is it possible to rotate a single letter in a word through ay 90° or 180° ? -
If not. Can anyone recommend a design programme simpler/cheaper than InDesign that will allow rotating individual letters
(making a text box plays havoc with the letter spacing !
TM
Tim, to rotate individual characters 180˚, you may be better off using other unicode characters, like zʎxʍʌnʇsɹbdouɯlʞɾıɥƃɟǝpɔqɐ. They do not exist in all fonts, but you could search for fonts that match.
Thanks a lot! I just made an invitation for my next exhibition and wanted to print the addresses "up-side-down". Your rotating solution showed up number one in google (great job!) so I picked yours and it worked great!
Thank you!!! I never would have figured this out on my own!!!!
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Can this be done within a table cell?
Thanks for this. It helped me make a cool graph.
I'd like to rotate the TEXT - not just the box but the actual words in the box. I can't believe my beloved Mac is letting me down and my crappy PC at work has a word art programme that makes it so easy.
Can anyone please tell me how to make my text run from bottom to top of a page?
Thank you.
This helped a lot! Thanks.
THANK YOU! FINALLY, AN ANSWER!
thanks a lot this was extremely helpful ive been looking everywhere on the internet for an answer thanks!
Such an easy answer, don't know why it was impossible to find in Pages!
hey guys! another question: what if I need to rotate text within the table? for some reason I can't even place the text box inside..
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Thanks a TON. Super helpful.
from me too - wonderfully clear
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thanx alot
I'm great with Macs and didn't know this. Thanks a bunch!
Ditto
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Thanks so much! I should have asked sooner. This was a great help!
Thank you so much! I looked under help in Pages and nothing showed. Just learned something new. Again thanks!
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