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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
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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. |
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To display the Object properties docker, click Window  Dockers Object properties. |
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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.
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Using the Text tool , select one or more characters. |
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Click Text Straighten text. |
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Click Text Align to baseline. |
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Using the Pick tool, select a text object. |
You can also mirror text by holding down Ctrl and dragging a selection handle to the opposite side of the object.
You can also mirror text fitted to a path. For more information, see To mirror text that is fitted to a path.
Left to right: Text in original form, mirrored vertically, and mirrored horizontally
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Using the Text tool , select the artistic text or the paragraph text frame. |
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at the bottom of the Character area to display additional options.
— flips the text characters from left to right
— flips the text characters from top to bottom