The orientation button is missing from my Excel tab

Thank you Cliff,

Sure thing. I understand your suggestions but my problem is that I don't have that "orientation" button in my toolbar. Here are two screenshots. There is no "orientation" icon or "format cell alignment" option.

When I try to type into the cell it types backwards and vertical.

For example, this is what I saw on screen when I typed "h-e-l-l-o"

     Thank you

I just spoke to support. The orientation button is missing from my Excel tab as well. I have it in an older version of Office 2016. The support rep determined that it is a feature that is behind the paywall of the online version of Office. It is not included in the free version. They assured me that if I were to pay for the online version it would be included, as well as other features such as the grammar checker. Hope this helps to answer a few people's questions because the threads I found were locked and unanswered.

Thank you for your help and response. 

I actually l do have excel on my desktop. I tried opening the project there and am able to type into the cells without a problem. I also saw the orientation button there as you mentioned. 

However, I need to have the spreadsheet available online as there are multiple users viewing and updating it. 

I also tried your suggestions to click the wrap text button in a cell. That doesn't seem to solve the issue. However, I noticed that if I start typing into the cell then delete the text that is written backwards and vertically 2-3 times by the 3-4 try it will start typing normally horizontally. This leads me to conclude there is some sort of coding error or other malfunctin at play. 

I have been using this exact spreadsheet since March and have only yesterday noticed this issue. 

Please advise.

I'm having issues with the text aligning vertically in excel spreadsheet. It appears the way to fix this is to align text horizontally via the Orientation button under the "Alignment" section. However, I can't find the orientation button and when I try to search for it nothing comes up. Any suggestions?

May resemble this...

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Dear G,

Can you see the button under Home? You can use Format Cell Alignment as well.

Meanwhile, I'd like you to upload a full screenshot of the Account page in the Excel application you are using for our reference. You can access the page via clicking on File>Account.

Note: Remove any private information before uploading the screenshots.

Sincerely,

Cliff | Microsoft Community Moderator