Rotate Text In Excel For Mac

In Excel, when entering text in English, by default, text reads from left to right and is horizontal. You can change the text direction by clicking the Orientation button and then choosing a direction option from the Orientation menu.

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Rotate Text In Excel For Mac

Rotate text and cell border to 45 degree Supposing you have a table as below screenshot shown, You can rotate the first row and border to 45 degrees with following steps. Select the cells you want to rotate, click Home Orientation Angle Counterclockwise. There are a lot of different formatting options in Microsoft Excel 2010, but there are some that you might encounter less frequently than others. One such formatting example is the ability to rotate the text that is contained within a cell.

Change the Text Direction

Select the text.

Choose the Home tab.

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Click the down-arrow next to the Orientation button in the Alignment group.
Click the option you want. Excel changes the text direction. The following graphics illustrate the five direction options listed on the menu.

Angle Counterclockwise

Angle Clockwise

Vertical Text

Rotate Text Up

Rotate Text Down

Can I manually set the Text Direction?

Yes. Excel measures the direction of text in degrees. The Rotate Text Up option sets the text to 90 degrees, the Rotate Text Down option sets the text to -90 degrees, and the default orientation — horizontal — is 0 degrees. You can use the Alignment tab in the Format Cells dialog box to manually set the text direction. 1) Select the text. 2) Click the dialog box launcher in the Alignment group. The Format cells dialog box opens to the Alignment tab. 3) Drag the orientation indicator or type the number of degrees you want in the Degrees field. 4) Click OK. Excel changes the text orientation.

Applies to - QuarkXPress 2015 (Mac and Windows)
Summary:

You can rotate the text in the table cell to 90 degrees or any angle as per requirement by following the steps below.
Solution:
Mac

Create a table using the Table Tool .

Now type in the text in any cell of this table using Text Content tool .

Highlight the text that you would like to rotate in particular using the Text Content tool and then select the tab 'Text Box' from the Measurements palette.

4. Choose the option 'Text Angle' to set the angle to 90 degrees.
Win

Create a table using the Table Tool .

Now type in the text in any cell of this table using Text Content tool

Highlight the text that you would like to rotate in particular using the Text Content tool and then select the tab 'Text' from the Measurements palette.

Choose the option 'Text Angle' to set the angle to 90 degrees.