In Word, you can only rotate the text by plus or minus ninety degrees.

In Excel you can do more. Consider using an Excel Spreadsheet in your
document rather than a Word table.

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"Uli" wrote in message
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Hi,

How do I get the first row of the table diagonal so that the words in
the cells are at a 45 degree angle? The table should look like this:


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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Thanks