Check Tools Options. On the International tab, there's a setting for the
'default direction.' (Even if it shows left-to-right, you might try changing
it, exiting, then changing it back).

"don" wrote:

my row and column headings have been somehow defaulted to appear on the right
hand side of the worksheet ... that is the alphabet ascends from left to
right & the numbers ascend from top down o.k., but they're on the right hand
side of the worksheet