[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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

"Steve_Ray" wrote in message
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Does the cell contain graphics? This can make a difference.

No graphics at all.

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.

However, that still doesn't clear up the main issue having to do with text
that's in the normal horizontal direction, but appears differently (i.e.,
with different horizontal positioning relative to the cell borders) in
different cells even though they are all formatted identically.