Is it possible to create text with shape consecutively horizontal/vertical without giving height-width and recalculate x-y?

[phun-ky]

I'm trying to create several boxes with text consecutively horizontal and vertical in a slide, but cannot find a decent way to do this without having each box the same size (different length of text), making a lot of white space or too lite space for the text, and also having to recalculate x and y position for each box..