Upside Down / Inverted / Vertical text on a report

[Aliza Klein]

Hi.

I have a report that mimic a form (the paper kind, not the Access kind) that
needs to be filled out with the data in my (Access 2000) system.

I have an image of the form that I placed in my report.

The problem:

Some of the data needs to be printed sideways.

The vertical property displays the text vertically - BUT only in one
direction (ie: the letters go from the top right corner and down the right
side. Based on the form - I need the letters to display vertically from the
bottom left corner and up the left side.

I also have some straight horizontal text that needs to be printed. If I
keep the vertical property as is, then the horizontal text needs to be
printed upside down!

The question: Is there a way to custom-rotate or force a text box (with my
data, of course) to print either vertically (the OTHER vertical way, not the
one Access provides) OR to print a text box, again with data) upside down?

Any clues would be appreciated!

Aliza

 

[Nelson]

Take a look at:
http://www.lebans.com/rotatetext.htm

 

[Mark R]

I have also had a problem with this issue. I got around it by
creating a text box in Microsoft Word, typed in my text, rotated the
text, copied the text box to the clipboard, then finally pasted it
into my form design.

Hope this helps.