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Flip and rotate elements

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Learn how to make your designs stand out by flipping and rotating elements, text boxes, shapes, photos, and videos.

You can’t flip text, charts, empty grids, frames, shapes, and grouped elements. Meanwhile, rotating elements on Canva Docs isn’t available.

Looking at rotating your design? Learn more about changing page orientation.

Flip elements, photos, and videos

  1. Click the element you want to flip.
  2. On the toolbar above the editor, click on Flip.
  3. Click on
    Flip horizontal to flip it sideways, or
    Flip vertical to flip it upside down.

Rotate elements, text boxes, photos, and videos

  1. Click the element, text box, image, or video you want to rotate.
  2. To select multiple elements, hold Shift and select the other elements you want to add.
  3. Outside the border of your selected element or group, there’ll be a
    rotate handle. Click and drag it left or right to rotate.
  4. To rotate an element using a specific degree, click on Position on the toolbar above the editor. Under Rotate, enter the value in the text box.
  5. To rotate images in grids or frames, click
    Crop on the editor toolbar, and drag the Rotate slider.

If the

error icon shows up on your video, follow the steps found in My video won’t playback.

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