Not only does vertical text selection work in Word, but you can use the same shortcut to select text vertically in a lot of plain text editors.

Release the mouse button to place a vertical text box on the document. Type any text in the text box, and Word makes the text flow from top to bottom.

This tutorial explains how to delete a text vertically in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet without deleting all the text horizontally.

Adjusting Justification in Word. Microsoft Word 2010 lets you justify a block of text by adjusting the spaces between words to make a paragraph align perfectly with the margins on both sides of ...