Text orientation inside table on slide (PPT2003)

[Keith R]

I have a table where I'd like the text in some cells to be oriented where
the text runs up the left side (e.g. top of text is toward the left side of
the slide). When I click the button to change text orientation, it only
toggles between normal and the opposite of what I want, where the text runs
down the right (top of text is toward the right side of slide). I've looked
everywhere I could think of for additional options, but haven't found any-
is there any way to orient the text within the cell of a table on a ppt
slide other than the two that I've found?

My other option is to overlay textboxes, but due to the complexity of the
slides, and that I'll need to move the table around from slide to slide, and
possibly reformat as I go, it would be /much/ easier if I can just keep the
text within the table itself.

Thanks!
Keith

 

[Luc]

Keith,
Text can be rotated 90 degrees. That's all I'm afraid.
You could create the table in Excel and insert it into PowerPoint as an
Excel object.
Or ungroup the table, rotate at will and then regroup, this of course will
mean that the table is no longer a table but a collection of boxes.