As per above, the user right-clicked on the Desktop, then selected Graphics Options, then Rotation.Įven computer experts like me do curse like hell when such events happen! I almost became a mystic! I was afraid The Devil (Il Diablo) caused ALL that!! The night before, I watched a crazy movie, allegedly inspired by a true story: The Rite. In previous versions of Windows, only the mouse operation worked. The rotate display is present in all Windows versions prior to Vista - vbut not directly, via shortcuts. Adobe InDesign makes intelligent use of the Shift+Ctrl+Alt+ combination, as it is less likely to happen accidentally. A better implementation of the keyboard shortcuts would use 3-key combinations, plus the arrow keys: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+arrow. It is unfortunate that Microsoft did not document these shortcuts. Ctrl+Alt+RIGHT arrow key rotates the display 270 degrees (clockwise).Ctrl+Alt+LEFT arrow key rotates the display 90 degrees (counter-clockwise).Ctrl+Alt+DOWN arrow key rotates the display 180 degrees (upside-down).Ctrl+Alt+UP arrow key always brings rotation to Normal.I realized that the arrow keys were the shortcuts to rotate the display. You can try it for fun - now it's easy to rotate to normal via the keyboard. I still needed that high-wire act of fixing the rotation with the mouse. This time, I pressed the DOWN arrow key before I pressed V. I usually go very fast with routine computer actions. If I don't want to preserve the original formatting, I press Alt+Ctrl+V, then I press the DOWN arrow to paste Unformatted Text. I pasted text from my Web page where I write about The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. What created the problem also gave me clues on how to solve this Microsoftoquirk. I discovered that I mistakenly pressed Ctrl+Alt and then an arrow key! That rotates the display from 0 degrees (Normal) to 270 degrees!

Unfortunately, the Windows 7 help facility offers NO CLUE whatsoever. With everything upside-down (including the mouse arrow), I right-clicked on the Desktop, then selected Graphics Options, then Rotation, then Normal. I feared another virus infected my computer! It took me a few LONG minutes to figure it out. I pressed one wrong key - and my computer display turned upside down. Your attention, please, Windows 7 users! You can inadvertently rotate your monitor screen - and believe hell broke free!

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