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command or key-in for text that is placed at an arbitrary angle be easily rotated to sit at 0 or 90 degrees to match other text placed horizontally, without having to delete it and then re-entering it.
Yes Oto, agreed. It would have been very useful on a recent project. The VBA is useful, thank you MaryB. In a wider context it would be helpful to be able to rotate a number of selected elements all to the same absolute angle in a single operation (which cannot be done from Element Properties). How about adding two options to the existing "rotate element" tool to make it more flexible: "to absolute angle" and "about element origin"? It would need some thought to have it operate logically on non-linear elements though (by tangent at origin? by endpoints?). I agree with Graeme@ECS the ability to set the desired angle from an element would be useful.