For many presentations, it would be nice to be able to rotate text in tables. Unfortunately, this is not possible in Impress. The workaround to insert a text box with rotated text into a table cell is quite annoying as much reformatting is necessary to get a decent looking table and the rotated text is not part of the table, of course. (For comparison: Powerpoint 2003 has a very restricted possibility as it can rotate text in PP tables, however only 90 degrees in only one direction.) Related entry for enhancement in OpenOffice.org bug tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94616
RC2 is bit by bit identical with release version, so separate items in the version picker are useless. Changes have been discussed with Michael Meeks.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
in 3.5.1 not found, so changing status of New Another workaround when creating presentation: create table in Calc, copy it, paste to Impress using Ctrl-Shift-V, select there "Calc 8". When opening ppt wiht rotated text, text is rotated. I can not find UI for rotating it. After saving into odp, rotation disappears. msOffice saves such tables as png pictures into odp format if odf fomat not allows such thing, it will much problem to add such functionality
Created attachment 59158 [details] contains table with rotated text, Impress opens it correctly
Affects me on Version: 4.1.3.2 Build ID: 410m0(Build:2), please make LO users to be able to add vertical text to tables in Impress.
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