No matter how I orient my page, my text types in a head to toe direction.
All of my "previews" in my formating screens show this as well. I take an
existing document with correct text direction and page orientation type what
I need, but any new word documents start out the way I described above.

turn these letter 90 degrees left and this is what I'm stuck looking at in a
new doc
H
O
W

A
R
E

Y
O
U
?

If you can help me fix this, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Try "Creating a new Normal.dot from scratch" by renaming your
current Normal.dot as described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm .

netaz wrote:

No matter how I orient my page, my text types in a head to toe direction.
All of my "previews" in my formating screens show this as well. I take an
existing document with correct text direction and page orientation type what
I need, but any new word documents start out the way I described above.

turn these letter 90 degrees left and this is what I'm stuck looking at in a
new doc
H
O
W

A
R
E

Y
O
U
?

If you can help me fix this, I would greatly appreciate the help.

answer to my own question...

After still further reading, I came across a hyper-link that sugested
renaiming the normal.dot file.
I used this link to find the answer... use it if you need it

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm

"netaz" wrote:

No matter how I orient my page, my text types in a head to toe direction.
All of my "previews" in my formating screens show this as well. I take an
existing document with correct text direction and page orientation type what
I need, but any new word documents start out the way I described above.

turn these letter 90 degrees left and this is what I'm stuck looking at in a
new doc
H
O
W

A
R
E

Y
O
U
?

If you can help me fix this, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Thank you for the help. This fixed the problem.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Try "Creating a new Normal.dot from scratch" by renaming your
current Normal.dot as described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm .

netaz wrote:

No matter how I orient my page, my text types in a head to toe direction.
All of my "previews" in my formating screens show this as well. I take an
existing document with correct text direction and page orientation type what
I need, but any new word documents start out the way I described above.

turn these letter 90 degrees left and this is what I'm stuck looking at in a
new doc
H
O
W

A
R
E

Y
O
U
?

If you can help me fix this, I would greatly appreciate the help.