Vertical text in a cell

Does anyone know how to make the text vertical in a cell?
Thanks

Hello
- 1 - English is not my native language so I wonder if you wrote lol about some mistakes or about technical terms.
- 2 - Here is the announced script
--[SCRIPT]
property charList : {}
set txtDatas to the clipboard
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set my charList to every text item of txtDatas
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASCII character (11)
set txtDatas to my charList as text
if txtDatas contains return then set txtDatas to my cleaner(txtDatas, return)
if txtDatas contains tab then set txtDatas to my cleaner(txtDatas, tab)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set my charList to {}
set the clipboard to txtDatas
on cleaner(t, d)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (ASCII character (11)) & d & (ASCII character (11))
set my charList to every text item of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
return (my charList as text)
end cleaner
--[/SCRIPT]
Save it as an Application and store it in:
yourStartupDisk:Users:yourAccount:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
maybe you will have to create the Numbers folder and even the Applications one
Select one or several cells
copy to clipbboard (cmd + C)
execute the script from the scripts menu
paste where you want (cmd + V)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 24 novembre 2007 14:29:08)

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