Rotating text in Word

Did you ever want to rotate heading text in a table in Microsoft Word? In Microsoft Excel, you can specify the number of degrees of rotation. However, in Microsoft Word, you can only rotate text by either 90 degrees clockwise, or 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Right-click the desired text, and click the Text Direction option. Select the orientation, and click OK.

The feature is a little tricky to find, since it is not accessible from either the cell or font formatting areas (or so it seems to me).

Note: The text must be located in a table or you won't see the Text Direction option on the right-click menu. Also, for older versions of Word, the only available text rotation was Word Art. I think the rotation-in-table feature was added in the 2003 version.