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Text direction and styles

I have a table where a dozen or so cells need text rotated from the normal by +90 degrees. Right-clicking on one of the cells shows a dialog where I can specify the direction I want. Now I am trying to define a style for these cells, but the styles seem to have no provision for text direction. Then whenever I write the docx out and read it back in, whatever style I have specified wrongly makes the text appear in the usual horizontal direction. There must be a way around this. I hope.
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It is not possible to define a style that includes text direction. This must be set individually for each cell. Sorry!
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You have confirmed what I suspected. The question then becomes, how do I maintain the text direction after the file has been written out and read back in later? It seems that whatever style I assigned gets reapplied and turns the text direction back to normal. I'm not even sure that styles get reapplied upon reading the file; it seems so because some of my table formats get changed without my wanting them to.
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