Rotate command

[john.p.addy]

I'm posting for the a friend that isn't a member on here which I have been trying to get him to join.  He has a problem which I haven't ever seen before.  Say you want to rotate text 90 degrees but when he goes into the rotate command and picks his text to rotate it stays on say the left to right like your reading in a book but still rotates.  it's hard to explain I have never seen anything like this. 

I use grips a lot for rotating things and the rotate command is screwed up with the grips also so he did something and changed something he wasn't aware of.

[user181 · Accepted solution]

Check on the properties palette to see if it is annotative text and the Match orientation to layout is set to yes. If so change it to no

[Kent1Cooper]

I'm not sure I understand -- can you post an image with before-and-after conditions?  Are you talking about Mtext  for which the "box" rotates but the direction of the text content within  it does not?  [That's my best guess from your description.]  Or plain Text  somehow?  [That's where I can't picture what the description would mean.]

Does the Text/Mtext have some kind of constraint  applied that forces it to remain running the same direction?

[john.p.addy]

That work thank you very much.  I have never seen that and confused me.