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ThetoolbarbuttonsRotate ClockwiseandRotate Counter Clockwiserotatetheelementinwhich
thecursorislocated90degreesatatime.
Torotateanelementintoanotherangleposition,usethe'angle'CSSpropertyoftheelement.Inmost
cases,thiscanbedoneintheelement'sFormattingdialog.Inothercases,suchaswithtext,youhave
toentertheCSSpropertyandvaluemanually.Bothmethodsareexplainedinthefollowingprocedure.
1. Right-clicktheelementandclicktherespectiveelementontheshortcutmenu.
Alternatively,selecttheelement(see"Selectinganelement"onpage570)andclicktherespect-
iveelementontheFormatmenu.
2. Onthefirsttab,lookfortheangleproperty.Ifitisavailable,typethenumberofdegreestheele-
mentshouldberotated.Apositivenumberwillrotatetheelementclockwise,anegativenumber
rotatesitcounter-clockwise.Skipsteps3to6.
Iftheanglepropertyisnotavailable,proceedwiththefollowingstep.
3. ClicktheAdvancedbuttontoopentheAdvancedFormattingdialog.
4. ClickinthefirstblankfieldunderPropertyandtypetransform.
5. Clickinthefieldnexttoit,underValueandtyperotate(,followedbythenumberofdegreesthe
elementshouldrotate,andthendeg),forexample:rotate(20deg).Apositivenumberwillrotate
theelementclockwise,anegativenumberrotatesitcounter-clockwise.
6. ClosetheAdvancedFormattingdialog.
7. ClosetheFormattingdialog,orclicktheApplybuttontoseetheeffectwithoutclosingthedialog.
Note: Itisalsopossibletorotateelementsbycreatingastyleruleinastylesheet;see"Styling
templateswithCSSfiles"onpage672.
Styling a table
Justasotherelements,tablescanbestyledintwoways:
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Withlocal formatting.Thismeansstylingthetabledirectly,usingtheFormattingdialog.
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ViaCascading Style Sheets(CSS).Inastylesheet,stylerulesaredeclaredforelementswith
differentHTMLtags,ID'sandclasses.
Thesetwomethodsaredescribedbelow.See"Stylingandformatting"onpage671forbackground
informationaboutthesetwomethods.
Selectingatable,roworcell
Thereareseveralwaystoselectatableorrow:
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