Numbers supports vertical text in shapes and text boxes, so you can enter and edit text from top to bottom, such as in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Each new line appears to the left of the one before it.
Control-click the object you want to use vertical text.
Choose Turn On Vertical Text.
If the object already contains text, it becomes vertical and any additional text you add is vertical. If the object didn’t already contain text, any text you add is vertical.
To make the text horizontal again, Control-click the object, then choose Turn Off Vertical Text.
Fit characters horizontally in vertical text
You can fit two to four characters horizontally within vertical text. This is useful for writing a few Latin characters, such as numbers, so they can be read from left to right.
While writing vertical text, select two to four characters you want to rotate.
In the Text tab of the Format sidebar, select, then choose Rotate to Horizontal.
When editing the horizontal characters, you can make all of the characters bold, italic, and so on, but you can’t edit the individual characters separately.
If you want the horizontal characters to appear vertically again, delete the characters and reenter them.
Make characters full width
You can change text to full-width, upright characters.
Select the vertical text you want to make full width.
In the Numbers menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Edit > Transformations > Make Characters Full Width.
Tips for using vertical text
Here are a few things to keep in mind about using vertical text in your spreadsheet:
If you copy an object that contains vertical text, such as a text box or shape, and then paste it into a Pages, Numbers, or Keynote document, the object appears in the other document with vertical text.
If a Numbers spreadsheet with vertical text in objects is opened in an older version of Numbers that doesn’t support vertical text, all text appears horizontally.
Numbers for iCloud can open a read-only image of a spreadsheet with vertical text.
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose Format > Make Layout Vertical. You can also Control-click in a document, then choose Layout Orientation > Vertical.
Rotate a horizontal text box to a vertical position
Select the text box you want to rotate.
Click Home > Position > Rotate Shapes, and then click Rotate Right 90 degrees or Rotate Left 90 degrees. Or. Use the rotation handle to position the text box and its contents vertically.
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose Format > Make Layout Vertical. You can also Control-click in a document, then choose Layout Orientation > Vertical.
In the Document sidebar, select the checkbox next to Vertical Text. As you type, each new line appears to the left of the one before it. Footnotes appear at the left side of the page. To turn off vertical text, deselect the checkbox next to Vertical Text.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Displays in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Click the pop-up menu next to Rotation on the right and choose how many degrees to rotate the image on your display. In the dialog that appears, click Confirm.
Control + Click the border of the shape or text box that contains the text, and then click Format Shape. In the Format Shape pane on the right, click Text Options. Click the third icon, Textbox, and then select the option that you want from the Text direction list.
Select the text that you want to center. in the Page Setup group, and then click the Layout tab.In the Vertical alignment box, click Center. The Absolute.
Select any portion of the text or click a text box or shape with text; if you're working in a table, click a table cell or select a row or column. In the Format sidebar, click the Text tab.Click the Style button near the top of the sidebar, then click the alignment buttons you want.
Click the “Align Left”, “Center”, or “Align Right” button to align the text to the left, center, or right of the cell, respectively. Vertical alignment: In the same “Alignment” group, click on the “Align Top”, “Middle”, or “Bottom” button to align the text to the top, middle, or bottom of the cell, respectively.
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