Hi Janice,
For Word things haven't changed in newer versions for 'slanted' text. It still doesn't do that.

You can create a text box and
rotate it in Publisher or Powerpoint to Paste into Word or create the slanted text in Excel and insert that as a picture or Excel
Object into Word where you want the slanted text.
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Does anyone still have office 2000? If so, I am trying to change the
direction of my text within a table. I can only see that I can change 90
degrees left or right.>>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview