Reverse (Mirror) in Word 2003

by D.K.

Jan 12, 2011

Hi all~

I'm in desperate need of some help here - if you can. My 5th grade classes are working on a MAJOR project for the community. Long and short, the students wound up writing papers in MS WORD and saving them. Problem is, I need to make sure everything is printed in reverse. The papers the students did are being printed on iron-on transfers and will later be ironed on to a piece of cloth to be displayed on a clothesline. I have 150 5th graders and about 100 have completely finished their papers. The teachers will not be happy if we have to retype everything into a new program. Is there a way in WORD to make a mirror image? I can't do it on my printer anywhere, and we don't have one in the district that does it. HELP - PLEASE! Thanks!

D.

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carol/tn/4 The only way that I can think of to do this is to copy your stories into a text box. Then copy THAT text box into another one. This turns the first text box into a "picture", which you can grab at one side and flip it to the other side, like you would reverse a picture. You would just have to be careful to size it properly to keep the spacing corre...See More

Jan 15, 2011

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East End Long Islander Another possibility is to "capture" the text using a program like Paint Shop Pro -- as a snapshot (if it were one visible onscreen page), saving it as a JPG file ... then you could definitely Mirror it ... BUT printing it larger might stretch the pixels out of whack. Still, it's worth a try

Jan 17, 2011

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East End Long Islander Here's a link to the official answer at Microsoft's website.

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SUMMARY You cannot create mirrored text directly in Microsoft PowerPoint, in Microsoft Word, and in Microsoft Excel. However, you can use Microsoft WordArt to create a graphic image of text that you can mirror by using the Rotate Or Flip command.
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Jan 17, 2011

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SueP/NJ While not an available asset in Word, many printers allow for that option. Normally found under the Layout option, look for a checkbox that reads "Flip Horizontally".

Jan 18, 2011

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dk Thank you all so much for your help! I couldn't do it on my printer, but copying the document, pasting into paint, flipping in paint, then copying from paint, paste into word and FINALLY print worked! It really didn't take too long after I got the hang of it. Thanks again all!

dk

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Jan 19, 2011

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