# Changing the direct of text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-direct-of-text/193765>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 18, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-direct-of-text/193765 "2006-07-18T11:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlgale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@carlgale](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/carlgale)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-the-direct-of-text/193765/1 "2006-07-18T11:13:30Z")

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Hi

could be a simple one but after hours of effort i cant for the life of me work out howto do this.

I have a text based button on the website im making at the moment the text goes left to right like normal. However i would like to turn this text button on its side 90degrees so that it reads down to up rather than left to right (this make any sense?) i can workout how to change the rotation of the boxes tho, its easy in something like ms publisher, but even if i make it in that and try and import it once imported it goes back to displaying the ‘normal’ way

any help would be great

with thanks  
carl