Omega symbol needs to be upside-down for project

My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
unhighlighted.

I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar, which
will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone have
any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of scanning the tiny
symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture of the symbol? There
must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at all.

I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.

Dave
Fri Aug 11 14:07:36 CDT 2006

Hi,

Not really a VBA question, but you can do the following.

Insert your symbol.
Select it. Copy it.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
In the Paste Special dialog box, double-click either Picture (Windows
Metafile) or Picture (Enhanced Metafile).
Select the picture.
On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and click Flip
Vertical.

HTH,
Dave

<hayes@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote in message
news:1155321724.189371.118440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
> aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
> and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
> unhighlighted.
>
> I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar, which
> will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone have
> any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of scanning the tiny
> symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture of the symbol? There
> must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at all.
>
> I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.
>

Graham
Sat Aug 12 00:38:20 CDT 2006

Then having done all that, save the resulting flipped image as an autotext
or autocorrect entry for ease of repetition.

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Dave Lett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not really a VBA question, but you can do the following.
>
> Insert your symbol.
> Select it. Copy it.
> On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
> In the Paste Special dialog box, double-click either Picture (Windows
> Metafile) or Picture (Enhanced Metafile).
> Select the picture.
> On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and
> click Flip Vertical.
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>
> <hayes@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote in message
> news:1155321724.189371.118440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
>> aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
>> and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
>> unhighlighted.
>>
>> I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar,
>> which will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone
>> have any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of
>> scanning the tiny symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture
>> of the symbol? There must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at
>> all. I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.

Jezebel
Sat Aug 12 01:43:27 CDT 2006

An alternative to Dave's suggestion is to use the character editor
(eudcedit.exe) to create the symbol.



<hayes@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote in message
news:1155321724.189371.118440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
> aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
> and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
> unhighlighted.
>
> I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar, which
> will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone have
> any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of scanning the tiny
> symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture of the symbol? There
> must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at all.
>
> I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.
>

hayes
Mon Aug 14 11:22:07 CDT 2006

When I paste the single letter in the spot I need it, which is in
parenthesis, it places it above my line of text and is a line length
long, so I have the letter with blank area the whole length of my line.
If I try to move the line handles, it will only change the height of
the line, but not the length. I hope that makes sense. (Sorry I got
the wrong group, I'm getting used to how this works.

Dave Lett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not really a VBA question, but you can do the following.
>
> Insert your symbol.
> Select it. Copy it.
> On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
> In the Paste Special dialog box, double-click either Picture (Windows
> Metafile) or Picture (Enhanced Metafile).
> Select the picture.
> On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and click Flip
> Vertical.
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>
> <hayes@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote in message
> news:1155321724.189371.118440@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > My boss wants an upside-down omega symbol to use in a book about the
> > aurora borealis. I put the right-side-up omega symbol in a text box
> > and cannot get it to rotate using the drawing toolbar, the rotate is
> > unhighlighted.
> >
> > I also tried to change text direction on the formatting toolbar, which
> > will not allow me to turn it upside-down, just sideways. Anyone have
> > any idea on how to make it upside-down, short of scanning the tiny
> > symbol, rotating it, and inserting it as a picture of the symbol? There
> > must be an easier way??? Thank for any help at all.
> >
> > I am on a Mac OSX 10.3.9, using Word, 2004, 11.2.
> >