Specifications
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FIGURE 9-9 Synchronized groups
Text Box Orientation
Each text box has a WritingMode property that by default displays text horizontally. There is
also an option to display text vertically to accommodate languages that display in that for-
mat. Although you could use the vertical layout for other languages, you probably would not
be satised with the result because it renders each character from top to bottom. An English
word, for example, would have the bottom of each letter facing left and the top of each letter
facing right. Instead, you can set this property to a new value, Rotate270, which also renders
the text in a vertical layout, but from bottom to top, as shown in Figure 9-10. This feature is
useful for tablix row headers when you need to minimize the width of the tablix.
FIGURE 9-10 Text box orientation