# Text is default rotated- how do I change back?

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**Created:** [November 16, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-is-default-rotated-how-do-i-change-back/316241 "2010-11-16T19:24:39Z")\
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I have the weirdest problem, and what’s weirder is that I can’t find any other postings about it anywhere.

When I select the text tool in Flash and click on screen to type, my text box is default rotated 90˚ clockwise. In addition, the text is default bottom aligned so when you hit return, the next line is above the first line. So, simply rotating it back doesn’t fix the problem.

[![](http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2607/picture4l.png)](http://img577.imageshack.us/i/picture4l.png/)

Even my properties box align buttons are rotated:

[![](http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/70/picture2qh.png)](http://img263.imageshack.us/i/picture2qh.png/)

I should add that the little rotation button you see for “orientation” is not the fix- it rotates individual letters.

I can’t find anything in the menus, toolbars or preferences to change this… help!

I’m using Flash CS4 on Mac.

Thanks.