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Help. I am trying to rotate text in a power point table.
I find where I can rotate it 90 degrees to the right, but
i want to rotate it to the left, and it doesn't give me
that option. I am virtually looking at a "read only"
presentation, so I know it can be done. Thanks in advance.
 
Help. I am trying to rotate text in a power point table.
I find where I can rotate it 90 degrees to the right, but
i want to rotate it to the left, and it doesn't give me
that option. I am virtually looking at a "read only"
presentation, so I know it can be done. Thanks in advance.
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Try adding an independent text box and rotating it.
Then delete the original text in the table, position the independent box where
you want it, then group it and the table.
 
My good man Steve -

Reading your reply, I decided to try this out myself...
but I found that I cannot group a text box and a
table together. PPT 2002 doesn't let me - the Draw | Group
option is greyed out.

Some things are just not meant to be grouped together.

However, here's a funky solution.

1) Cut the table onto the clipboard
2) Do a Paste Special on the table, as Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
3) Group the newly pasted table and the text box together

- Jeff Chapman
 
My esteemed colleague:
Reading your reply, I decided to try this out myself...
but I found that I cannot group a text box and a
table together. PPT 2002 doesn't let me - the Draw | Group
option is greyed out.
Some things are just not meant to be grouped together.
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Dang. Pick up enough rocks and the most amazing critters skitter out.

Good catch. Shall we award him the ears, folks?

I thought at first you'd run into a side effect of the dreaded Automatic Layout
For Inserted Objects Infuriator feature; that tends to convert stuff into
placeholders w/o your permission or knowledge, and placeholders can't be
grouped with other stuff (makes a weird kind of sense, since they're really on
the master slide, not on the current slide. sorta.)

But that's not the case here. Tables inserted via Insert, Table are table
shapes and not autoconverted to placeholders.
However, here's a funky solution.

1) Cut the table onto the clipboard
2) Do a Paste Special on the table, as Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
3) Group the newly pasted table and the text box together
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Or:

1) Ungroup the table
2) Select the bits *and* the text box you added later
3) Group

Same net effect, a bit easier since you can do it all from the rightclick
popup.
 
1) Ungroup the table
2) Select the bits *and* the text box you added later
3) Group

Same net effect, a bit easier since you can do it all from the rightclick
popup.
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Impressive (spoken in Darth Vader voice).

Actually, I never thought that tables inserted via Insert | Table
could be ungrouped and maimed at one's leisure.
So... you just gave me YET ANOTHER weapon in the
battery of PowerPoint tools to sear the mind...

- Jeff
 
Actually, I never thought that tables inserted via Insert | Table
could be ungrouped and maimed at one's leisure.
So... you just gave me YET ANOTHER weapon in the
battery of PowerPoint tools to sear the mind...
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And next we'll move on to roebucking.

You can usually ungroup OLE linked/embedded stuff too (ie, tables from Word or
Excel). Handy thing. It tosses out all the excess data you may not want
others to see (and may not want to carry along with the file anyhow) and leaves
a WMF representation of the content.
 
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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how to
make this easier to do in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your feedback
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