Word to Pages 09

I have alot of Word documents on a pendrive. I plugged in into my Macbook Pro and was amazed when they opened up in Pages 09 (Iwork retail v9.0.3) . But there is one problem some of the text is displayed in the wrong direction. I can't seem to find a command/button to change text direction. Can anyone help?
Mike

The text is in a table where I want the text to run vertically like on the spine of a book within the column but the text is coming out horizontally over 3 lines splitting the words up.

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