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POSSIBLE TO ROTATE FONTS 180% ?
I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF
COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE |
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Hi J.J.
If you mean "Upside down font" The short answer is, you can't !! The only way to create an upside down font is either in Word Art, or, there are downloadable "upside down fonts" on the net. For future reference, please don't post in ALL CAPS. It is really hard to read, especially if you are working with formulas, and it is considered to be the equivalent of shouting. HTH Michael M "J.J." wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE |
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The only way I know is to use some code. I assume that you want
Type Words in Reverse to appear as esreveR ni sdroW epyT Here's the code to accomplish that - pretty much only works for non Word wrapped cells (or reverse before applying word wrap). Press [Alt]+[F11] to get to the VB Editor, use Insert | Module to create a code module, then copy and paste the code below into it. Sub ReverseText() 'works with current selection Dim anyGroup As Range Dim anyCell As Range Dim tmpText As String Dim revText As String Dim LC As Integer Set anyGroup = Selection For Each anyCell In anyGroup revText = "" tmpText = anyCell.Text If Len(tmpText) 0 Then For LC = Len(tmpText) To 1 Step -1 revText = revText & Mid(tmpText, LC, 1) Next anyCell = revText End If Next End Sub If you want true mirror image of the text, you'd need to create mirrored font set. If you look closely at the above, you'll notice that the openings of non-symmetrical characters like e, s, p and d are not reversed. There are tools that can be used to create new font sets or modify existing ones. I've successfully used a program called FontCreator to modify existing fonts for this mirroring. Contact me if you want to try one or two (remove spaces): HelpFrom @ jlathamsite.com There are copyright issues involved, so any that you wish to use must also exist and be licensed to you for use on the system. I haven't researched this in depth, but I would think that fonts provided with your operating system would meet the requirements. "J.J." wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE |
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POSSIBLE TO ROTATE FONTS 180% ?
I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%.
OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% It might help to rotate some of the text 90 degrees and the rest -90. Then print it out and rotate the paper. It’s likely that the spreadsheet has other requirements that would be messed up by doing this, but it's worth mentioning in case not. |
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Good point - that about a 180 degree rotation turning out upside down. I had
only thought about the reverse flow of text. Now it's up to the OP to clarify things. "Michael M" wrote: Hi J.J. If you mean "Upside down font" The short answer is, you can't !! The only way to create an upside down font is either in Word Art, or, there are downloadable "upside down fonts" on the net. For future reference, please don't post in ALL CAPS. It is really hard to read, especially if you are working with formulas, and it is considered to be the equivalent of shouting. HTH Michael M "J.J." wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE |
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Maybe you could use this technique:
Put that value/formula in an out of the way cell. Edit|Copy that cell Then to where you really want to see the upside down text Shift-edit|paste picture link Now you have a picture of that "real" cell. But since it's a picture, you can rotate it 180 degreees. J.J. wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE -- Dave Peterson |
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Dave,
Would you be kind enough to do a walk through. I can't get my XL2K to perform a rotation. Both the drawing toolbar and the format picture dialog box have the rotation option grayed out. Even "ungrouping", to transform it to a MS Office drawing object, which then seems to activate those rotation options, still doesn't perform any actual rotation. -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Maybe you could use this technique: Put that value/formula in an out of the way cell. Edit|Copy that cell Then to where you really want to see the upside down text Shift-edit|paste picture link Now you have a picture of that "real" cell. But since it's a picture, you can rotate it 180 degreees. J.J. wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE -- Dave Peterson |
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I don't have access to xl2k anymore, but in xl2003, I'd do this:
Type the text I want in a cell. Edit|Copy Go to the other cell (different worksheet?) Shift-edit|Paste Picture link (pasting the picture link will allow the picture to update if the "sending" cell changes) In xl2003, there's a green circle coming off the top of the pictu 0 <-- green circle | 0----0----0 (0's represent the grab handles) | | 0 0 | | 0----0----0 I can grab by that green circle and rotate the picture. (I don't recall if this is the way xl2k works--with the green circle, but I seem to remember that I could rotate pictures in that version.) RagDyer wrote: Dave, Would you be kind enough to do a walk through. I can't get my XL2K to perform a rotation. Both the drawing toolbar and the format picture dialog box have the rotation option grayed out. Even "ungrouping", to transform it to a MS Office drawing object, which then seems to activate those rotation options, still doesn't perform any actual rotation. -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Maybe you could use this technique: Put that value/formula in an out of the way cell. Edit|Copy that cell Then to where you really want to see the upside down text Shift-edit|paste picture link Now you have a picture of that "real" cell. But since it's a picture, you can rotate it 180 degreees. J.J. wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Select the cell and EditCopy.
Select target range. SHIFT + EditPaste Picture. You should have the re-size handles and a rotation handle available. Gord On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:33 -0800, "RagDyer" wrote: Dave, Would you be kind enough to do a walk through. I can't get my XL2K to perform a rotation. Both the drawing toolbar and the format picture dialog box have the rotation option grayed out. Even "ungrouping", to transform it to a MS Office drawing object, which then seems to activate those rotation options, still doesn't perform any actual rotation. |
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Thanks to you both!
Here was the problem: I *didn't just* copy the cell - I <Shift <Edit <Copy Picture Then <Shift <Edit <Paste Picture Just a simple "Copy", with a "Paste Picture" works fine. I *overcomplicated* it a bit.<g -- Regards, RD ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... I don't have access to xl2k anymore, but in xl2003, I'd do this: Type the text I want in a cell. Edit|Copy Go to the other cell (different worksheet?) Shift-edit|Paste Picture link (pasting the picture link will allow the picture to update if the "sending" cell changes) In xl2003, there's a green circle coming off the top of the pictu 0 <-- green circle | 0----0----0 (0's represent the grab handles) | | 0 0 | | 0----0----0 I can grab by that green circle and rotate the picture. (I don't recall if this is the way xl2k works--with the green circle, but I seem to remember that I could rotate pictures in that version.) RagDyer wrote: Dave, Would you be kind enough to do a walk through. I can't get my XL2K to perform a rotation. Both the drawing toolbar and the format picture dialog box have the rotation option grayed out. Even "ungrouping", to transform it to a MS Office drawing object, which then seems to activate those rotation options, still doesn't perform any actual rotation. -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Maybe you could use this technique: Put that value/formula in an out of the way cell. Edit|Copy that cell Then to where you really want to see the upside down text Shift-edit|paste picture link Now you have a picture of that "real" cell. But since it's a picture, you can rotate it 180 degreees. J.J. wrote: I AM USING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND WOULD LIKE TO POST FONTS AT 180%. OF COURSE I CAN USE THEM AT 90% BUT HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT THE SECRET OF THE 180% PLEASE HELP.........THANKS IN ADVANCE -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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