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Mirroring text in Publisher 2016

Anonymous
2017-12-20T19:00:48+00:00

Using Publisher 2016.

I need to "mirror" text in a text box.

In ROTATE there are options to Rotate Right or Left 90 degrees. Also Flip Vertical or Horizontal. "Flip Vertical" works just fine as seen in attached photos.. I would think the "Flip Horizontal" option would mirror the text. It doesn't either in Publisher or Word 2016. After research I discovered I could use the Format Shape option and set the X Rotation to 180 degrees. It works in Word but not in Publisher. Has anyone else ran across this or am I missing something?

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  1. Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-12-20T20:03:37+00:00

    Flip Horizontal option works only for images.

    The workaround which works in Word (180 degree) doesn't work in Publisher for Text box.

    In my view, this is a bug.

    The only workaround is to create this flipping in Word > Copy and paste special as picture in Publisher

    OR

    Copy the Text Box in Publisher > Paste special as Picture > Now, you can flip the picture.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-20T20:59:38+00:00

    I agree it has to be a bug in Publisher. I guess I could flip a Picture. Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-20T20:56:29+00:00

    Thanks, The font I want to use isn't accurately represented when I use Word Art.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-20T19:55:56+00:00

    Hi,

    Can you check the following link it many help you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHEurtPH4es

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-20T19:26:36+00:00

    No I haven't run in to that specific issue, but I have encountered variations on it.

    Back when the "phat" ribbon was being designed for Office 2007 the team made a corporate decision to embrace chaos instead of enforcing consistency in the User Interface. They decided to allow each program team the discretion on what functions they implemented, where they put them, what they called them and what icons they used. So a feature in one application could have more sub options than the same feature in another application. The specific example I remember was the way the new photo editing was added.

    I actually had a similar question to do with PowerPoint. The person wanted to insert pictures into tables. Seems easy enough, but it couldn't be done. I was able to recreate the problem. So I inserted a picture into a table in Word, then pasted it into PowerPoint. Oops the picture "jumped" out of the table. But it was still linked to the table. When I resized the table, the picture distored. Freaky. In the end I was able to use paste special as a Word object into PowerPoint.

    So the end result is, if it doesn't work in one application, do it another, then copy and paste into your required application.

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