Reverse your text by character order, word order, or line order.
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Character mode reverses the entire string letter by letter, turning 'hello' into 'olleh'. Word mode keeps each word intact but reverses their order, turning 'the quick fox' into 'fox quick the'. Line mode keeps each line intact but reverses the order lines appear in, useful for flipping a list or reordering pasted content.
Reversing text is used for puzzles and wordplay, checking whether a word or phrase is a palindrome, or simply reordering a pasted list or set of lines without retyping it by hand.
Reversing 'hello' in Character mode gives 'olleh', letter by letter. Reversing 'the quick fox' in Word mode instead gives 'fox quick the', each word stays intact but their order flips, useful for checking whether a phrase reads the same as a palindrome (which 'hello' clearly doesn't, since 'olleh' isn't the same as 'hello').
Using Character mode to check a palindrome phrase with spaces or punctuation without normalizing first, 'A man a plan a canal Panama' reversed character-by-character won't exactly match the original due to capitalization and spacing, strip those first for an accurate palindrome check.
Expecting Word mode to reverse letters within each word, it only reverses the order of whole words, 'the quick fox' becomes 'fox quick the', not 'eht kciuq xof'.
Forgetting that Line mode reverses the order of lines, not their content, a numbered list reversed with Line mode will have its lines in opposite order but the numbers themselves stay exactly as typed, likely now out of sequence.
Yes, use Character mode and compare the reversed result to your original text, if they match, your text reads the same forwards and backwards.
Yes, punctuation attached directly to a word (like a comma or period) moves with that word when the word order is reversed.
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