How to Flip Text Upside Down in the Same Frame in InDesign
Learn an easy way to flip select lines of text upside down, leaving other text unrotated.
In this InDesign how-to video, David Blatner reveals a quick and easy way to flip individual lines of text 180º in a frame that contains text with no rotation applied. The solution—which came about from a question posed on the CreativePro forums—is to put it in a table! You could use this for quiz questions where you don’t necessarily need to hide the answer, but just make it difficult to read at a glance.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on May 20, 2022
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