How+to+type+sideways+in+MS+Word

This is a useful and easy way to add some very cool and useful document elements to your MS Word documents. This can be especially useful if you're making graphs, presentations, and other documents where it can be handy to have something sideways. You could also just use it for fun and have the students add it to their work to add a design element.

Steps for typing sideways. 1) Open your MS Word program and select insert "Word Art". This will be found under the "Insert" tab at the top of the file.

2) Once you open that menu, a selection of fonts, styles, and colors will appear. Choose which ever one you want. The size and font dont matter, so have fun with it. Once you choose your style, click on the text box that appears and type in whatever you want.



3) After you type in whatever you want, do a right click on the text box, and select "format Word Art" at the bottom of the menu.



4) Once you select this, a new window will appear with all the options for formatting the word art. First choose the tab that says "Size" at the top, and then go to the section that says "rotation". Its here in rotation that will be able to turn your typing to any direction you want. 90 will turn it sideways, 180 will flip it over, 270 will turn it sideways and backwards, and 360 will do nothing since its a full rotation back to normal. Play around with the numbers until you find the rotation that you want.



5) Once you figure out the rotational degree that you want, choose ok at the bottom and watch the typing turn. Have fun with it.



- Rafael Hinojosa-Caul