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Changing text direction
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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Changing text direction
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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Changing text direction
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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Changing text direction
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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Changing text direction
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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Changing text direction
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. -- 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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Changing text direction
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. -- 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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