INDS CS3 - equivalent to PS "rotate canvas"?

Hi everybody,
I am pretty new to InDesign and I suspect this is a boneheaded question, but I would really appreciate your help ...
Is there an InDesign command equivalent to the Photoshop "rotate canvas" feature? I am making the layout for a cardboard "digipak" CD case. The construction works like a homemade Christmas card, basically: fold a square in half then fold that in half again. Thus, I need the top/bottom halves of my layout to be oriented 180° against each other (bottom half right side up, top half upside down, as it were).
Having now placed all the graphics to my satisfaction and done the texts of the bottom half, I am desperately searching for a way to rotate my layout 180° so I can work on it comfortably without turning my monitor upside down! The layout is full of a complex set of fold, cut and bleed guides, so I am hoping for an 'in document' solution rather than building another page, flipping it and importing it ...
Thanks in advance for your time!
- HC

So ... thank for the tip.
I did as you suggested though I am not entirely certain that it worked yet. I imported the new document I made and rotated it into place on my template, but it looks rough as all get out (like the rough graphics placeholders in the workspace do) - this includes the writing: not all vector-perfect, ugly and non-editable. Perhaps I imported it incorrectly?
This work-around still bothers me for a couple of reasons:
- Photoshop has had a "rotate canvas" feature for year and years so why doesn't InDesign offer that, too?
- My eye can't handle setting balance and layout upside down even if I find the command to turn the writing over (I presume that isn't so tricky)
- I also have to place a spine text at 90° to the other text and might want to add text on the back cover also at 90° to the rest.
I would be thrilled to hear some analysis of my importing problem and any other possibilities you see for me!
Cheers,
- HC

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