Omega symbol needs to be upside-down for project

[hayes]

My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
unhighlighted.

I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar, which
will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone have
any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of scanning the tiny
symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture of the symbol? There
must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at all.

I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.

 

[Dave Lett]

Hi,

Not really a VBA question, but you can do the following.

Insert your symbol.
Select it. Copy it.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
In the Paste Special dialog box, double-click either Picture (Windows
Metafile) or Picture (Enhanced Metafile).
Select the picture.
On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and click Flip
Vertical.

HTH,
Dave

 

[Graham Mayor]

Then having done all that, save the resulting flipped image as an autotext
or autocorrect entry for ease of repetition.

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[Jezebel]

An alternative to Dave's suggestion is to use the character editor
(eudcedit.exe) to create the symbol.

 

[hayes]

When I paste the single letter in the spot I need it, which is in
parenthesis, it places it above my line of text and is a line length
long, so I have the letter with blank area the whole length of my line.
If I try to move the line handles, it will only change the height of
the line, but not the length. I hope that makes sense. (Sorry I got
the wrong group, I'm getting used to how this works.