CorelDRAW Help | Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To shift or rotate a character

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To straighten a shifted or rotated character

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To return a vertically shifted character to the baseline

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To mirror text

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To flip text by dragging diagonally

Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text

You can shift the characters of artistic and paragraph text vertically or horizontally or rotate them to create interesting effects.You can straighten characters into their original position, and you can return vertically shifted characters to the baseline. You can also mirror or flip artistic and paragraph text characters.

If you want to adjust the position of an entire text object that is fitted to a path, such as a circle or a freehand line, see To adjust the position of text that is fitted to a path.

Rotated characters

To shift or rotate a character

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Using the Text tool

, select the character or characters.

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In the Object properties docker, click the Character button

to display the character-related options.

To display the Object properties docker, click Window

Dockers

Object properties.

3 .

Click the arrow button

at the bottom of the Character area to display additional options.

4 .

Type a value in one of the following boxes:

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Horizontal character offset — A positive number moves characters to the right, and a negative number moves characters to the left.

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Vertical character offset — A positive number moves characters up, and a negative number moves characters down.

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Character angle — A positive number rotates characters counterclockwise, and a negative number rotates characters clockwise.

You can also use the Shape tool to shift or rotate characters. Select the character node or nodes, and then type values in the Horizontal character offset box, Vertical character offset box, or Character angle box on the property bar.