How do you rotate text in a cell?

I want to rotate the headings of the columns vertical like I've been able to do on Excel but I can't find the way to do it in Numbers. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

This comes up periodically as you can tell by the "More Like This" sidebar. Numbers (or Pages) cannot rotate text in a table cell. The solution for now is to use text boxes, rotate the text box & place the text box over the cell.
I suggest you leave feedback for the Numbers team regarding this. You can find it under the Numbers menu > Provide Numbers Feedback. That takes you to the same page as this link.

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I'm trying to rotate the text in header row by 90 degrees. Is this possible in Numbers?

You cannot rotate text in any cell of a table. There are a variety of technoques to work around this limitation:
1) rotate a text box with the header text in it:
2) copy the desired header text (which is rotated) then open Preview and create a new document from the clipboard. Then use the rectangular selection tool to surround one word, then copy, then paste that into one of the cells in you header:
Create new Preview doc from the clipboard contents:
Now copy words out of preview using the rectangular selection tool:
copy.
now select the cell where you want this text:
There are some other ways (which you can find by searching this forum).
Hope these help

How do you rotate text

I am looking to rotate text 90 degrees. I cant seem to find this basic function in numbers.

Hi Bru,
Text rotation is possible in Shapes and Text Boxes, but not in Tables. You can put a rotated image into a table cell, but you won't be able to use the text in the image in any functions.
Here's the way I prefer for placing rotated text into a Table Cell.
Insert > Text Box
Type text into box
Size the text and set the box dimensions to your liking - not critical on the size, but the proportions are important
Click once on the box to select the object, not the text inside
Rotate the object in the direction you desire
Command-C to copy the object to the Clipboard
Switch to Preview.app
Command-N to make a PDF of the Clipboard Content
Command-C to place the PDF file on the clipboard
Switch back to Numbers
Command-V to paste it to the cell where you want it
It takes less time to do it than to tell about it.
Jerry
I made an error in my sequence in the original post - now corrected.

How do you rotate text to read top to bottom in a table

I want to be able to put headers into a table and have them read from top to bottom. Please help!

Your question was already asked and answered several times.
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How to set the text of a cell in Numbers to vertical direction? Tks.

Hi
In Numbers, please tell me how to switch the text of a cell to vertical direction?
Tks.

Hi Kyle,
In Numbers, nothing having to do with a table can be rotated. (In Pages an entire Table can be rotated, but not text within a Table.)
There have been many suggestions posted here over the life of iWork for vertical labels. Most fall into three categories:
1. Type one letter, Option-Return, type another letter, Option-Return, and so forth.
2. Type label in a Text Box, rotate the box, position the box over the table, covering the cell where you need a label.
3. Create a PDF graphic with rotated text and insert it into table cell as Background Fill.
The third option is clearly the best. The steps for option three are:
Insert Text Box
Type label into the box
Rotate the text box
Select the text box (not the text inside the box)
Command-C
Switch to Preview.app
Command-N
Command-C
Switch to Numbers
Click on Cell where the label goes
Command-V
It sounds worse than it is. You can reuse the Text Box so you don't end up with a sheet full of them.
Regards,
Jerry

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Since I am relatively new to Designer, my first question is: am I going about this correctly? If not, how do I rotate text vertically in a table? If I am doing it correctly, what can I do to fix this problem?
Thanks.

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The text needs to be in a TextBox which you can create from the ToolBar and the that can be rotated by control clicking near the top right corner of TextBox and dragging it around.
Alternatively click on the TextBox > Inspector > Metric > Rotate: enter value.
Peter
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