[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You wrote:

Since posting I've realized that in the latter part of my inquiry, adding
'space above' wouldn't have the desired effect because even though the
text
in the cell is vertically directioned, 'space above' would only affect the
horizontal dimension.

This suggested to me that where you were trying to get the space was at the
top of the cell, which would be the right (or left) side of the rotated
text.

And could you please figure out how to avoid posting the same thing three
times?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Steve_Ray" wrote in message
...
Indeed, if you want the equivalent of "Space Above/Below" in a vertical
direction (in rotated text), you need to use paragraph indents.

I'm not sure I follow, but I'll do some experimenting with 'indents.'
That
still wouldn't appear to explain the variation from one cell to another --
i.e., why text is correctly horizontally centered in some cells but in
others
is hugging the 'top' border line of the cell (which, in the case of
'vertical' text, is actually the 'left' border line).

Again, these cells are all formatted identically; there are no alignment
or
positioning variations, at least none that I'm aware of.