Options for vertical text and columns A checkbox labeled “Vertical” appears in two places: the Column Guides dialog box and Type palette. In the Column Guides dialog box, you can create column guides for vertical text in Publication documents. In the Type palette, you can specify horizontal or vertical orientation for text objects. To use vertical text column guides You can use the Column Guides dialog box to set up horizontal guides for columns (text objects) that contain vertical text. 1 If necessary, select the “Enable two-byte script” preference. 2 Choose Layout > Column Guides. The Column Guides dialog box appears. 3 Select the “Vertical” checkbox. The column guide buttons at the top of the dialog box change to vertical orientation. 4 Use the preset column buttons or the other options to specify guides for the number of columns that you want to use. •   To use preset column guides, click one of the buttons. The first three buttons are for 1, 2, and 3 text columns respec- tively. The last two buttons are for 2 columns with a wide and narrow column. •   You can set up guides for any number of columns from 1 to 12 using the “Number of columns” text box. 5 Click OK to create guides for the specified number of columns. To use the Vertical option for text objects You can use the Vertical option in the Type palette to set up the Text tool for vertical text, and to orient text objects to contain vertical text. 1 If necessary, select the Enable two-byte script preference. 2 Open the Type palette by double-clicking the Text tool or choosing Text > Type. 3 Do one of the following to set up the Text tool, or to change the orientation of existing text objects: •   To change the default operation of the Text tool, make sure that no objects are selected in the document. •   To change existing text objects, select the text objects. Tip The Vertical options described in this section, which appear when “Enable two-byte script” is selected, are not related to the “Verti- cal” command that changes the alignment of text bound to a path.
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