Put some Text into a cell. right click this cell format cells Alignment Text orientation 90° Vertical "middle" The entered text is invisible unless you change the text orientation to something diffrent then 90° or change vertical to something else than middle. Testet on Ubuntu 10.4 x86-64 LibreOffice 3.3.1 & 3.3.2
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34316 ***
referenced bug had a typo, linked to a bug that was not migrated from fdo, setting to correct one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34136 ***