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Vertical text in Numbers

For some reason, none of methods I've read for making vertical text in a cell seem to be available. Neither Control-click over a cell, nor the Arrange menu, nor the Text submenu under the Format icon leads to an option to turn on vertical text. This is true whether I am trying to format existing text or add text to a new cell. Any suggestions on what the issue is?


Steve

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 11, 2020 10:39 AM

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Posted on Aug 11, 2020 6:00 PM

Suggestion: Go to the menu item Numbers/Provide Numbers Feedback and request they add vertical text to cells. This is not currently a feature of Numbers. Hopefully it will be added at some point.


Other than that you can create a text box. Text boxes allow vertical text. Place the text box on top of a cell. It is not an ideal solution. Text boxes on cells do not move with the cells if you adjust row/column sizes, move the table, etc.


Another thing people have done is make text "images" and use them as background images for cells. Background images do move with cells.

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Aug 11, 2020 6:00 PM in response to SteveTrombulak

Suggestion: Go to the menu item Numbers/Provide Numbers Feedback and request they add vertical text to cells. This is not currently a feature of Numbers. Hopefully it will be added at some point.


Other than that you can create a text box. Text boxes allow vertical text. Place the text box on top of a cell. It is not an ideal solution. Text boxes on cells do not move with the cells if you adjust row/column sizes, move the table, etc.


Another thing people have done is make text "images" and use them as background images for cells. Background images do move with cells.

Vertical text in Numbers

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