Gradiant Fill direction

I can’t say that I have played with it much, but I was looking to use a gradiant fill in one of my Sprite objects I created in flash. Seems that the gradiant fill always goes left to right… how can I make it go up and down? I know I can rotate the object, but then I would mess with the x and y scales that would mess me up later down the road.

is there a way to change it to vertical fill?