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1. Select the AutoShape (AutoShapes: A group of ready-made shapes that includes basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars and banners, and callouts.), picture (picture: A file (such as a metafile) that you can ungroup and manipulate as two or more objects or a file that stays as a single object (such as bitmaps).), or WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.) you want to rotate.

   Note  If you don't see the Drawing toolbar in the lower left corner of the program window, on the View menu point to Toolbars and then click Drawing.

2. Do one of the following:

   Rotate to any angle

   1. Drag the rotate handle on the object in the direction you want to rotate it.

      Note  If you don't see a rotate handle, on the Drawing toolbar, in the lower left corner of the program window, click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and then click Free Rotate.

   2. Click outside the object to set the rotation.

   Rotate 90 degrees to the left or 90 degrees to the right

   • On the Drawing toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Draw, point to Rotate or Flip, and then click Rotate Left or Rotate Right.

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