Table Orientation in Word

[Guest]

I am writing a document - mainly text in portrait - that includes a large
table. By large I mean wide i.e. high number of columns. Normally I would
insert a section break for the table and switch to landscape and then insert
a section break afterwards.

However, there is a need to preserve the headers and footers (due to the use
of a logo that will not stretch in landscape). So, my question is: Is it
possible to have a table "behave" like a table that has been rotated 90
degrees e.g. when I get to the end of the table and press tab a new row
appears that is actually a column?

Thanks in advance for your help

Robin

 

[macropod]

Hi Robin,

The usual way of doing this is to use a landscape section for the table, and
put the (rotated) header into a text on that page.

Since you apparently don't want to do that, the other obvious option is to
transpose the table's rows and columns and change the text direction to
vertical.

Cheers

 

[Guest]

Thanks Marcopod

Is there an automatic function to transpose within Word? (I know you can do
it in Excel.) Will the table then function appropriately? E.g. using the
header row repeat command that will not be the first row, but the first
column?

Fingers crossed!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There is no such function in Word. You can transpose the data in Excel and
paste it back into Word, however. But see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm for instructions
to put a portrait header/footer on a landscape page.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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