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How to rotate a picture

Inside Writer

After inserting your image,

• click on your image for the image toolbar to appear (View ▸ Toolbars ▸ Image);
• click the Rotate icon on the toolbar (a semi-circle arrow). Note that the green handles around the image turn red;
• move your mouse over one of the red handels around the image (at one of the corners of the image). Note that your mouse turns into a round, two-headed arrow; and
• once your mouse turned into the arrow, left-click, move your mouse up or down, and release the left-click.

Using LibreOffice Draw

• create a new Draw document (File ▸ New ▸ Drawing);
• insert or copy/paste the picture into the Draw document;
• right click the picture. Select Position and Size;
• select the Rotation tab.
• under Rotation angle, set the rotation angle you want; and
• copy and paste the picture into the Writer document.

Using your default picture editor

• open the image you need to rotate in your default image editor;
• make the nesessary changes to the image, e.g. rotate the image;
• save the image;
• open your Writer document, and
• insert your newly-rotated image into the document through Insert ▸ Image....