Rotating Text In MS Word and Wrapping Text In PowerPoint

Until MS Word 2010 we were able to do the following:

1. If we needed to rotate text we could use the Text Art feature. After typing the text you would then have the ability to rotate the text as needed. You could not use this for everything since "Text Art" has a distinct look and good for specific things relating to graphics such as Logos, Headings, Masteheads, etc.

2. If you are doing a table with many columns we sometimes rotate text in the table headings (each separate cell), to display the headings vertically in order to save room or as a specific look. For this, we make use of the "Text Direction" button when using tables.

3. Up until 2010, if you placed text in a text box or object, and used the rotate feature the text box or object would rotate but the text would stay still and NOT rotate. In order to deal with this we could save the box as a gif using paste special and then rotate the "picture" as needed.

4. Finally, in 2010, MS Word, you can now place your text in a text box or object and the text will rotate along with the text box or object. This makes things a lot easier.

Wrapping Text Around A Picture or Object in PowerPoint:

The situation: You bring a picture or an object into a PowerPoint slide. You need the text that is in the slide to wrap around the picture. Well, what a pain in 2003-10. In order to do so, you have to send the picture or object to the back then bring in multiple text boxes and manually manipulate the text by hand using the spacebar in order to achieve the look of text wrapping around the object. 

You would be better off just doing it in word and snapshotting the text and picture then bringing the snapshot into Powerpoint. 

Someone at Microsoft obviously picked up on this problem. 

Auto-Text Wrapping in Power Point

Another very useful, and much needed, feature added to PowerPoint 2013 is auto-text wrapping. When an image is added to a slide with text in it, the text automatically readjusts itself around the image so that there is no overlapping of any kind."

Check this out and try this out. Once you see what you had to do from PowerPoint 2003-10 you will really appreciate this feature.

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