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The result, of course, is that you have text that is 180 degrees in relation to each other, which means it appears upside down when printed.

Rotate the text in the right cell by 90 degrees to the right.

Rotate the text in the left cell by 90 degrees to the left.

In the right cell, place the text you want to be upside-down.

In the left cell, place the text you want to be rightside-up.

Create a document using landscape orientation.

This capability can be utilized to achieve the look that is wanted. Why? Because the upside-down information is not really text, but a graphic image.Īs mentioned earlier, Word allows you to rotate text 90 degrees either left or right. Of course, if you want to make changes to the upside-down text, you can't do so without redoing all these steps. Now you can position your upside-down text anywhere you want. The graphic image (which is your text) appears in the Word document. This copies the graphic image back to the Clipboard. In most graphics programs, this selects the entire canvas, which is your pasted and rotated text.

Use whatever commands your graphics program provides to rotate the image by 180 degrees.

Accordingly, you may need to make some modifications in this particular step.) (Different graphics programs have different requirements for pasting information. The text should now be within your graphics program.

Switch to your graphics program and press Ctrl+V.

Press Ctrl+C to copy the paragraphs to the Clipboard.

Select the paragraphs you want to ultimately be upside down.

Within Word, type and format your text as you want it.

If you have access to a graphics program you could also try these steps: (This is very similar to the WordArt approach, as you are dealing with non-Word objects within Word.) For instance, you could create a fully rotated text object within PowerPoint and then insert it in your Word document. The only drawback to this is that WordArt doesn't give you the range of text control that Word does, and it was never meant to handle large selections of text, such as a quarter page or a half page of information.Īnother option is to create your text in a different application and then insert it into Word as an object. Your text is actually saved in your document as a graphics object, which Word allows you to rotate freely on the page.

First, if the information you have to print upside down is fairly short, you could use WordArt. There are several workarounds you can try, however. (To print something upside down you need to rotate it 180 degrees.) Unfortunately, Word doesn't have a way to easily do this, instead only allowing you to rotate text 90 degrees left or right. For some printing jobs, you may have a need to print text both rightside-up and upside-down on the same piece of paper.