Rotating Images in MSWord97
Geoff Coley
1. Create a chart in Excel (say a bar chart with labels, text, legend, etc).
It shows up in Landscape mode. Selecting Portrait mode just makes it tall
and skinny - it doesn't rotate the image 90 degrees.
2. Display the chart as a picture/image/graphic/etc in MS Word but rotate it
90 degrees while maintaining the page as "Portrait" orientation.
Notes:
Word insists that the image cannot be rotated since it was not created in
Word. Help suggests that I "ungroup" the image and then it can be rotated
and regrouped. When you ungroup the image, all of the text is forced to be
unrotated (axis labels etc). When you do the rotate, the text stays
unrotated, and all of the non-text bits rotate and relocate into something
unrecognizable. A search of microsoft.com's help revealed a "disassemble
picture" feature. This at least keeps the bits in the right locations with
respect to each other but it still screws up the text orientation.
Copying the picture into Paint Shop or some other graphics program turns it
into a bitmap which is ugly and jagged when it gets put into Word.
Changing the page to Landscape is an exceptionally ugly solution because it
moves all of the headers and footers to Landscape locations, resets page
numbering, and generally mangles a template that I must use.
All I want to do is to take an image from one MS product, rotate it 90
degrees and display it in another MS product. Doesn't seem like that much
to ask. One solution is to accept that "I guess I just don't want to do
that." Anyone have a better solution?
If you can help, please email me directly (geo...@yahoo.com or
geoff...@dres.dnd.ca) Thanks.
Geoff