Make sure that your language settings are correct. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Chris Jones" wrote in message
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I have managed to change the direction of text in Word. I am not
talking
about the text direction inside a text box or table cell, but the
default
background text. The text direction button is greyed-out (as you are
not
supposed to be able to change it in the first place).
I caused the problem by using Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a pdf
document to
a word document. Opening the document resulted in vertical text, and
now all
newly created documents have the same vertical text formatting, with
a
horizontal cursor shown at the top right of the page, facing down to
type
text in a vertical direction.
I would like to change it back!