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Word 2003 text orientation - can I rotate the display?

Oct 16, 2014 2:17PM PDT

Change the Orientation of Text in Microsoft Word 2003

It's great, but when I do, it's very hard to read/edit. Is there any way to tell Word 2003 to rotate the page display so the text is horizontal?

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No. But one could on some machines
Oct 16, 2014 2:36PM PDT

Some machines can rotate the display. Google NVIDIA ROTATE for example.

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Rotating the display not helpful, need just the page rotated
Oct 17, 2014 3:49AM PDT

I have a display that can be rotated, but that means mouse movement is at 90 degrees, and the toolbars are too. Maybe some people can work that way, but not me. I use rotated text for CD and DVD case inserts, and I usually copy the text to a blank page without rotation to get it ready, then copy it into the rotated table. I need the displayed page to be rotated, but not the rest of the desktop. Maybe one day . . .

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It's one of those odd areas.
Oct 17, 2014 4:01AM PDT

Sort of a Sistine Chapel ceiling painting effort. I'm finding folk expect easy to use software today but not yet. I guess one could use a CD/DVD label program which is what I use.

However one person was done when they starting to use Word's own text boxes which let you do a little more. Tutorials on Word are all over so take another look at text boxes.
Bob