Issue 16505

Summary:	Vertical text direction in Writer table
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	ruiter <michielwittkampf>
Component:	code	Assignee:	h.ilter
Status:	CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE	QA Contact:	issues@sw <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, tamblyne
Version:	OOo 1.0.3	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ruiter 2003-07-06 13:06:57 UTC

I think vertical text direction in a table in MS Word is an important feature. 
Sometimes to let text use less space, sometimes to make a cd cover, etc. Is it 
possible to make it in Writer too?

Michiel

Comment 1 tamblyne 2003-08-19 05:26:17 UTC

In OOo, make selection and use Format > Character > Position tab to
choose angle of rotation.  

Tam

Comment 2 ruiter 2003-08-19 14:44:37 UTC

Thanxs! Works for me too.

Michiel

Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-08-19 14:58:28 UTC

That's great, Michiel.  Thanks for using and supporting
OpenOffice.org.  : )  

Tam

Comment 4 pfctdayelise 2007-01-07 14:09:27 UTC

I think this method of changing text direction needs mentioning in the Help
files more. I was looking for "vertical text direction" and downloaded OO 2.1
because I thought 1.1 had no support for it. Then 2.1 for some reason has the
button "Vertical Text" on the Drawing toolbar, but trying to make it a Visible
Button has absolutely no effect, until you figure out that you need to enable
Asian language support. Then you have to figure out how to do that. I am not
sure what the value of restricting vertical text direction in this way to Asian
language users only is.

Finally I find the answer in IssueZilla and I didn't even need OO 2.1 after all!!