PH>I believe what you want to do is controlled by your particular printer
  >driver. Not all printers support landscape printing. *I* have a Canon
  >BJ-610 printer, and can put text rotated to any orientation on the
  >page. My previous printer (Panasonic KX-P2123 24-pin) only supported
  >rotated text in 90 degree increments. When I selected a text box, I had
  >the option of rotating the box in a dialogue box.
Phil,
Thanks for the reply. I have a LaserJet 4p, and the text
edit box (WP 6.0 DOS) shows no rotation option, so I installed
a Canon BJ-600 (no driver available for the BJ-610), and the
text edit box still showed no rotation option. Either my HP
LaserJet allows only the landscape and portrait options for
the whole sheet, or my WP version is not like yours, or the
BJ-600 does not allow rotation variations, or...
PH>Anyway, I would first check to see if your printer supports text mixed
  >in portrait and landscape mode. Antoher way you might be able to get
  >around it is to print the whole page graphically.
Ah, yes. I messed with that before putting up the message.
I see only two ways to create a graphic segment of text on
a page with an orientation unlike the segment: use the
equation editor (does not allow all the font and appearance
changed I need for the segment), or create the segment,
scan it in, and rotate it in a graphic box. That may work,
but in the rough-draft-edit-proof-edit (on and on) stage,
this is way too slow, not to mention WP's slow printing of
a graphic that has been modified in WP. All me gripes aside,
this may ultimately be my solution to the problem. I was
hoping for a more efficient way.
                                              --bob
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