Issue 16505 - Vertical text direction in Writer table
Summary: Vertical text direction in Writer table
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.3
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: h.ilter
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2003-07-06 13:06 UTC by ruiter
Modified: 2007-01-07 14:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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!!