

Don’t worry if you have a colored shape, I’ll soon show you how to remove the shape border and color shading so that it won’t be visible. This is the shape that will contain the text.

Whether you want to change the text from Vertical to Horizontal or vice versa, it’s possible with shapes and tables. However, it does permit you to change the direction of text in case of Tables, shapes, or text boxes.

Ignore it however, look at the toolbox that it is a part of. On this tab, you can see a button labelled ‘Orientation’. With the text selected, go to the Layout tab. Make sure there’s text on it and select the text. Microsoft Word doesn’t permit changing the direction of normal paragraph text. Open an MS Word document and go to the page you want to change the orientation for.
