Issue 59687

Side by side, with Microsoft Office, the OO user interface for doing text
rotation is so clumsy and ineptly designed as to be nearly useless.  Please let
me explain:

In MS office, you just tell it "rotate text" (in a top-level menu item, if I
remember correctly) and you're done. 

In OO, it's buried do deeply in menus so you can hardly find it.  Then, once you
do, it doesn't really work.

The character rotation doesn't work, because it doesn't respect newlines.  You
have to use manual break instead, which is really tedious because OO (unlike MS
office) doesn't provide a hot key to insert a manual line break.  (yes, you can
set up a hot key for the dialog, but then you still have to select "line break"
-- it doesn't remember your last choice -- and hit enter.  Very boring)

If one can be content with 270 degree rotation, one can select "table
properties" (deceptively named, since what you're really adjusting is the table
CELL properties) and change text flow/text direction, which works the way the
"character / properties" OUGHT to work.

I am sure there is some fancy-pants XML/object-oriented philosophical reason for
doing thing this way, but from the standpoint of user experience, it sucks.