Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 66059
Text direction control difficult
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:40 UTC
It is clearly possible to control text direction within a graphic. The attached file shows a couple of graphics with two different text directions. But it is very hard indeed to find from the help index, or indeed anywhere else, how to change the text direction. This needs to be improved.
Created attachment 36885 [details] Drawing file that shows two text directions. How on earth do you change them.
no bug, but a request for support The whole rectangle is rotated by 270°.
Maybe this needs some improvement, at least in the help files.
Reassigned.
Agreed that this needs improved documentation. There are two parts to that: 1. Help files should show that text direction of a graphic rotates with graphic. This should come up under a search of text direction. 2. There needs to be an obvious way of a user telling the difference between a shape and a rotated shape, and documentation to this.