Tutorial
Rotate the Text and Drag It Into Position

You can rotate a text block, or any other object, clockwise or counterclockwise in increments as fine as a tenth of a degree.

  1. Click the object pointer in the tool bar to select it.

  2. Click the text block to select it.

  3. Choose Rotate from the Object menu. The Rotation dialog box appears. It provides a place for you to type the number of degrees you want to rotate the selected object. Positive numbers rotate the object clockwise. Negative numbers rotate the object counterclockwise.

  4. Type -90 and click OK. The text block and the text it contains rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise.

  5. Place the object pointer on the rotated text and hold down the mouse button. The watch icon appears briefly, and then the text appears under the pointer.

  6. Drag the text so that it is centered underneath the logo and there is about 1 pica of space between the logo and "1990." Then release the mouse button. Even though Snap To is chosen, the object stays where you placed it. That's because objects only snap to the grid when you create or resize them-not when you move them.

  7. Press Command-1 to switch to Size To Fit view.

  8. Click the page 2 icon in the page scroll bar. The text you added to the left master page appears on page 2 as well.

  9. Save your changes by choosing Save from the File menu. The changes you made are safely stored on your disk.