how do i rotate a document 180 degrees?

meatloaf257 · February 17, 2020, 9:55pm

document is upside down on my screen

ajlittoz · February 18, 2020, 6:58am

What do you think we can do with such a terse description? Read these guidelines and edit your question (don’t answer).

OS, LO version, characteristics of the document; does it happen only with LO?

keme · February 18, 2020, 8:09am

If the “upside-down” is an image (scanned document): Right click and select Rotate or flip... to get the options you need.
If everything on your screen is upside down: Press ctrl+alt+Up arrow

Otherwise, as ajlittoz already requested, give more detail!

A few other things may be relevant, in addition to what he specified … (list may still not be comprehensive)

Is the issue with a LibreOffice application? (Which one? All of them? Other apps too?)
Is only window content upside down, or is also user interface (e.g. menus) flipped?
How did the document(s) come about? (Received by mail/download, text typed into a fresh (blank) document, created from a scanned document, etc.)

ajlittoz · February 18, 2020, 8:58am

@keme: Ctrl+Alt+Up arrow does nothing in my Linux box with nVidia card. This may be Windows or MacOS specific

keme · February 18, 2020, 2:22pm

Ctrl+Alt+Up arrow does nothing in my Linux box …

I know…

When entire screen is misoriented and the user does not know why, it is very often (I would guess >90% of the cases) due to accidentally touching the ctrl+alt+arrow combination.

90% estimate is mainly based on my working in PC support in a secondary school, serving a total of 800+ students and teachers, for 20+ years.

This keyboard shortcut is often available on portable computers with Windows OS, rarely on “boxes” and also rarely with other OS’.

@ajlittoz: You could try the other arrow keys and see whether you can change the orientation, then use the up arrow again to return to the upright position. I suspect that still nothing will happen on your system. Be happy!

ajlittoz · February 18, 2020, 4:12pm

@keme: Ctrl+Alt+any arrow, page up/down, Home or End does nothing either. But I’ve found funny combinations, probably unique to the nouveau driver (does not work on my other machine with Radeon card):

Meta++ or - (main keyboard, not numeric keypad, without Shift): zoom-in/soom-out (I already new these
Meta+arrow : sends the active window to the corresponding screen edge and stretches the other axis edge to edge (does not cross screen)
Win key+PgUp: maximise active window (toggling)
Win key+PgDn: minimise active window

These two are mentioned in menu when right-click on window bar
Meta+P: pops up a menu to choose multi-screen configuration
Meta+E: launches the file navigator (Dolphin)

It seems there is a mixture of driver-intercepted keystrokes and keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma.

Just wanted to share for fun.