Text Orientation:

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This occurs when I initally open a new document or start MS Word. I do not have any tables, text boxes, or auto shapes set up. It's a blank document, however the type is writing 90 degrees clockwise down the right side of the page.
 
Hi, Brian. In Word, click on Tools | Options | File Locations, and note the folder for User Templates. Close Word. Rename the NORMAL.DOT file in the User Templates folder specified in Word (the folder may be hidden). Restart Word. Is the problem gone?
 
the template is not the cause...

the text is rotated by 90 degrees, i have the same problem, just like when
you modyfy the text orientation in a table call, but this is in the WHOLE
page, no tables, no cells,...
changing the page orientation (lanscape,...) doesnt fix the problem,
also, all the buttons about text alignment are rotated also. So it HAVE TO
be a specific function.
I can print the document so that it appears normal, but i have to keep the
head on the side to read on the screen.
i didnt see any help yet, i looked all possible buttons that i could reach,
i looked at the page properties,...
and when i want to save it to a web page i have the following warning :
Vertical text will become horizontal.

any ideas ?
 
Are you sure you are not using a Table PC or a monitor that permits rotation
of the display?

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

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usyms said:
the template is not the cause...

the text is rotated by 90 degrees, i have the same problem, just like when
you modyfy the text orientation in a table call, but this is in the WHOLE
page, no tables, no cells,...
changing the page orientation (lanscape,...) doesnt fix the problem,
also, all the buttons about text alignment are rotated also. So it HAVE TO
be a specific function.
I can print the document so that it appears normal, but i have to keep the
head on the side to read on the screen.
i didnt see any help yet, i looked all possible buttons that i could reach,
i looked at the page properties,...
and when i want to save it to a web page i have the following warning :
Vertical text will become horizontal.

any ideas ?
Click to expand...
the folder for User Templates. Close Word. Rename the NORMAL.DOT file in
the User Templates folder specified in Word (the folder may be hidden).
Restart Word. Is the problem gone?do not have any tables, text boxes, or auto shapes set up. It's a blank
document, however the type is writing 90 degrees clockwise down the right
side of the page.the right side of the page. Along with this, my justification and column
keys turned sideways as well. How do I get it back to "normal".
 
No, it's not the monitor, either. I have a 1996 Toshiba laptop dinosaur, and
I have just encountered the same problem as of today. It occurred with only a
segment of a large document that I edited yesterday, and only a few
paragraphs have been turned vertically, and now they take up 50 pages. As w/
the others, I have no cells or tables in my document. I checked into changing
the NORMAL.DOC template name, as suggested below, and I did notice that the
template had been (somehow) modified as of yesterday, the last day my
document looked normal. But renaming the .DOC did not help.
:((
 
Did you check the suggestions I offered earlier wrt Asian language settings?

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

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Suzanne, I'm afraid I don't see your suggestions on Asian language, even when
I do a search on that subject. I have tried selecting the text itself and
changing the language to English. I have also tried British, Dutch, and
Catalan, and it doesn't do a darn thing. This is very important to me-it's
the only document I have that I really, really care about! I suppose I can
spend a week fixing it with the delete and space buttons. At least the text
is not gone.

If you were speaking of something other than setting the language in Word,
please let me know what to do. Still, I have to think this has something to
do with the normal template that changed yesterday. However, I already tried
making a new normal template, and nothing changed.

Thanks for your time! I can see that you're helping a lot of people with a
lot of silly problems. :D
 
I answered another similar question in this or another NG recently, and I
just assumed you were the same poster (perhaps there's a strange virus going
around?). Here's what I replied (and I have no real hope that it was/will be
helpful):

Unless you have a monitor (or Tablet PC) that
allows you to rotate the display, you have probably enabled some Asian
option. Word's Help has the following (which suggests you may need to check
what language is selected in Tools | Language | Set Language and what
languages are enabled in Microsoft Office Language Settings):

Change vertical text to horizontal in a vertical East Asian document

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only
available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

Only full-width characters are correctly set as vertical text within a
document. Half-width characters, such as numbers, are displayed as
horizontal text rotated 90 degrees to the right, but you can set these to be
combined so that they appear properly as vertical text. This feature is best
used for small pieces of text, such as dates.

1. Select the half-width characters, such as numbers, that you want to
combine.

2. On the Format menu, point to Asian Layout, and then click Horizontal
in Vertical.

3. To align numbers to the line width, select the Fit in line check box.
Note To clear horizontal formatting, select the horizontal characters. On
the Format menu, point to Asian Layout, click Horizontal in Vertical, and
then click Remove.

----------------------------------------------

FWIW, here's the problem description from that poster:
how could i change the text and the page orientatio.
(The curser appear verticale insted of horezental, I write from top to down
instead from left to right)
Click to expand...

When I responded with instructions about changing text direction or page
orientation, he replied:
Actual every thing is change from left to right to up to down even the
alignment and the list icons, I know how to change the text direction within
the table and how to change from portal to landscape put this is different.
If I start ms word every thing is rotated 90 .
Click to expand...

In your specific case, I believe we've already established that neither a
table nor a text box is involved?

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
I had the same problem:

Symptoms:
All text in any new document is verticalat the _document_ level.
I can open existing documents and they disply correctly

Cause:
I opened an RTF with special formatting instructions and accidently
over-wrote the default page layout settings (by clicking 'Default' under page
layout while the funky rtf was open). I think RTF uses special tags in the
file that can do things to the page setup that you can not adjust through the
MSWord application once they are set.

Cure:
Open a document with horizontal page layout, then click on page setup and
click 'Default' button agint to replace the funky settings with normal ones.
Presumably the poster who told you to move normal.dot was trying to
accomplish the same thing....

Chears,
John
 
I had the same problem. I opened a document that had a page embedded within
it that was vertical and when I went to type on that page, all the text was
vertical and on the right. The alignment buttons in the toolbar all changed
to vertical as well. I tried to delete the page and it would not delete.
Somehow, the settings from that document got saved, and since then I had a
problem with starting a new document. I found an older document and deleted
all text and started with that one and saved it as a new document. It got
frustrating.
I finally opened an existing document that was correct, and went to page
setup and clicked the default button and it saved the defaults from that
document as the new setup, and since then all the documents are correct.
Thanks for the guidance John. That worked. Now, my print layout view and
print preview are all correct.
 

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