Vertical Text Selection (InDesign)

I've been trying to look for information to help me select text vertically in InDesign unsuccessfully. I know Microsoft Word can do it, is there a way to select text vertically in InDesign? Perhaps using a script? I use InDesign CS1 on a Mac G4. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
M

There may be some sort of clumsy and tedious way to do it with the help of Word:
You could copy your text to a Word document, then do to it whatever can be done in order to make the text flow and line breaks etc match the appearance it has in InDesign. Then do the vertical selection. Give some significant new attribute to the selection, like another typeface.
Save the Word document and place it to that text box in InDesign where it actually came from. Do a search&replace looking for the new "alien" typeface, replacing it by the original one plus doing to it what you actually wanted to do with it ...
Well, as I said: clumsy and tedious
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