Sean S. was telling us:
Sean S. nous racontait que :

I am unable to align text vertically in a table cell. I have removed
all other formatting (tab stops, indents, etc.), but the text will
only align horizontally.

View Toolbars... Tables and Borders.
On that toolbar are buttons (or button, depending on you Word version which,
BTW, you have not mentioned) to control the vertical alignment.
In later version it is also part of the Cell tab in the Table property
dialog.
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Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org