Rotation reset in illustrator cs4

hi when i select object or text and rotate it to any angle by selection tool, this will rotate ok nice, but how do i reset their angles to 0 degree straighten
there is command in object - transform -transform again - reset bounding box what it does nothing reset objects, its big problem how to solve this

Your welcome, sorry to be the bearer of bad news as many people have been asking for this for as long as illustrator forums have existed. The closest in Illustrator is that you can on the type palette cmd click the icon in front of the number to reset tracking horizontal scale and such. Would be nice if you could do the same on the transform palette.
On a similar topic I wish you could reset the scaling of linked images with a command, i know of the links palette flyout menu placement options, but don't like that as the transform handles don't match the image, so snapping to die is difficult.

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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:04:35 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Is there a 3D rotate tool in Photoshop CS4 (non-extended)?
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