Why is my text upside down in Publisher?

[MS STOKES]

Hello! Please HELP!

 

I am a newbie and am wanting to build a book project. I have done my master page and now when I want to go type on page one, my text is coming out upside down. But also the entire document seems upside down as page one is at the bottom on the left of the 123 page setup, when I asked to start on the right.

 

Does anyone know why this is happening? PLEASE SEE SCREENSHOTS.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @MS STOKES.

One way you might have caused that is by using View > Rotate > Rotate Left (or Right)  twice. To fix it, View > Rotate > Reset Rotation.

[Old Bruce]

Hello and welcome to the forums @MS STOKES

Look and see if the Frame on the Master page is upside down, note the little pan-handle on the upside down version.

I'll bet Walt beats me with the solution.

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I'll bet Walt beats me with the solution.

I think I did, because yours (while good) would not explain the set of pages in the workspace being inverted (page 1 at the bottom when you zoom out) as shown in the screenshots in the original post

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[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Lagarto said:

One way this happens inadvertently very easily is if you grab the middle bottom handle and drag it over the top of the text frame and hold down the Shift key while doing so. (Dragging over flips the text vertically and holding down the Shift key flips it horizontally.)

Holding the Shift key is  not necessary, in my experience. You can always simply drag the top center node down past the bottom center node to flip vertically (or vice versa). Same works with the side center nodes. And this works for all the shapes a text frame can have.

(But that would not explain the placement of the pages within the workspace. Only rotating the view, as far as I know, will do that.)

[thomaso]

4 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I'll bet Walt beats me with the solution.

The "negative" ruler in the screenshots is an indicator for Walt's theory 🏆

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[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Lagarto said:

Holding down the Shift perfroms horizontal flip WHILE you in the same process have first flipped vertically (by dragging over).

Thanks. That's an intresting side-effect of constraining the aspect ratio of the Text Frame. It gets very narrow as it gets shorter, and at the cross-over point you've flipped both edges of the frame, flipping it (and the text) both horizontally and vertically.

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[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Lagarto said:

but it can be considered as a kind of "constraining".

The status bar says that holding Shift will constrain the frame proportions. And it does