- Working with Connectors and Text
- All About Connectors
- All About Glue
- Getting from One Glue Type to Another
- Gluing Connectors
- When Connectors Cross
- Automatically Laying Out Shapes
- Drawing Curved Connectors
- Adding Arrows, Points, or Other Line Ends to a Connector
- Working with Text
- Moving Text Blocks
- Resizing Text Blocks
- Aligning Text
- Setting Tab Stops
- Creating Bulleted Lists
- Creating Numbered Lists
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Spell-Checking Your Text
- Formatting Text
- Selecting Background Colors
- Rotating Your Text
- Resizing Text Blocks
- Giving Text Shapes Borders
Rotating Your Text
By default, Visio's text is drawn horizontally—but that doesn't stop you from rotating it to fit your shapes, as shown in Figure 3.44.
![Figure 3.44](/content/images/chap3_9780789736864/elementLinks/th03fig45.jpg)
Figure 3.44 Rotating text.
You also can rotate text to label the vertical axis in a graph, or whatever you want.
Rotating text is not difficult in Visio, if you follow these steps:
- Select the Text Block or Standard Pointer tool in the toolbar.
- Select the text block you want to rotate. Visio selects the text block and shows its selection frame.
- Drag the rotation handle of the selection frame, rotating the text as you want it. Visio rotates the text to match.
- Release the mouse button.
By default, Visio lets you rotate text only in 15° increments. However, you can rotate text at any angle you want if you follow these steps:
- Select the Text Block or Standard Pointer tool in the toolbar.
- Select the text block you want to rotate. Visio selects the text block and shows its selection frame.
- Select View > Size & Position Window. Visio displays the Size & Position window, shown in Figure 3.45.
Figure 3.45 Using the Size & Position window.
- Enter the angle for the text. 0° is horizontal.