
Here, you can add and edit text boxes, shapes and more. Click on it to open a blank ‘Drawing’ window. In the ‘Drawing’ drop down menu, you will find the ‘New’ option.

In the ‘Insert’ drop down menu, click on or hover over the ‘Drawing’ option (which is the third option in the list). Step 3: Click on or hover over the ‘Drawing’ option. Click on it to open the ‘Insert’ drop down menu. The ‘Insert’ tab is located in the top left corner of the screen, right next to the ‘View’ tab. If you want to open an existing document, just select a file under ‘Recent documents’. Google Docs gives you many options for templates: reports, resumes, class notes, etc. You can also create a new document by selecting one of the templates from the template gallery. This will open a new tab with the blank Google Docs document. You can also type docs.new in the search bar of your browser and press Enter or Return. To create a new blank document, click on the plus sign at the top of the screen. You can either create a new document or select an existing one. Once you are on the Google Docs homepage, you can open a new file. Otherwise, you will not be able to see the homepage. Make sure that you are first signed in to your Google account. This will take you to the Google Docs homepage.

To do this, type in your browser’s search bar, then press Enter (or Return if you are using a Mac). The first step is to open the Google Docs document in which you would like to have the vertical text. Once you are done, you can just insert it in your document and adjust its position.īelow are the steps for this method. You can edit the text in the text box just as you would edit the text in your document. You can do this by creating a text box in the Drawing window then making it smaller until the text is vertical. One way in which you can make your text vertical is by typing (or displaying) letters one below the other, like this: Method 1: Changing the size of a text box in Drawing With that introduction, let’s get started. Hence, you can follow along even if you have little to no experience with Google Docs. Note that this article is intended for complete beginners.

In this article, we will be discussing these alternative methods. However, there are some workarounds, or alternative methods, that we can use to type vertically. In Google Docs, there isn’t a direct method for switching from the horizontal to the vertical typing style. Another example is when you are creating a greeting card so you want to type vertically. For example, you might want to type vertically to label the horizontal axis of a graph. However, there are some situations in which you might want to type vertically. In word processing applications, the default typing style is horizontal.
