Thanks Jay, I'll give those suggestions a go.
-----Original Message-----
Hi Mark,

No, I don't think you can do anything with fields that
could turn text
on the screen (though it is possible on a PostScript
printer with a
PRINT field containing PostScript commands, it wouldn't
appear that
way on screen). Just in case, you could press Alt+F9 to
see whether
any field code appears in the table, then press it again
to turn off
the display of codes.

The article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/UpsideDownText.htm
lists just about every known way of rotating text. If it
isn't any of
those, I'm stumped.

As a final suggestion, there may be some weird
corruption in the
table. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for
procedures to try to resolve that.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?
JayFreedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word

"Mark Parsons"
wrote:

Thanks for that Jay, unfortunately thats not the
problem.
The strange thing is I can scroll accross using the
spacebar but as soon as I enter a letter it reverts to
vertical mode, very strange! Could it be something to
do
with fields, of which I know nothing about?
-----Original Message-----
Hi Mark,

It is possible that the text is inside a text box
that's
in the table
cell, and the text direction you see belongs to the
box.
Unlikely, but
worth checking.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?
JayFreedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word

"Mark Parsons"
wrote:

I'm working in a table created by someone else, and
have
a problem with the text direction in some of the
cells.
Despite the fact that the horizontal box is
highlighted
in the text direction option, the text still insists
on
going downwards or vertical. Has anyone got any
ideas,
any help would be appreciated.

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