changing table orientation on page
Guy Hermans
I'm desperately trying to print an existing table vertically ("landscape")
on an "portrait" orientated page in a Word document, since the table is
quite broad.
No use inserting continuous page sections before and after the table -
once I change the page layout of the section containing the table the
section breaks change to "next page".
Exporting to graphics formats, rotate in a graphics program and then
importing as a graphic is (a) not quite as straightforward as it could be
and (b) results in awful print quality.
Hints, anyone?
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Cindy Meister -WordMVP-
> I'm desperately trying to print an existing table vertically ("landscape")
> on an "portrait" orientated page in a Word document, since the table is
> quite broad.
>
What version of Word do you have? It's very important for this question :-)
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
You can *create* a landscape table on a portrait page if you have Word 97,
but you're not going to like what you have to go through to do it. Basically
what you have to do is rotate all the text 90 degrees. This can be done, but
you'll find editing sideways very odd. The alternatives are to type in all
the text and then rotate it or to view the table in Normal View (in which it
is not rotated). In either case, cells that are narrow and deep rather than
shallow and wide do strange things to text, so it's a bit hard to visualize
the ultimate effect.
I'm not sure I understand why you need to do this, anyway: the usual reason
for putting a table broadside is that it is too wide to fit on a page any
other way. If this is the case, it deserves an entire page to itself, in
which case there is no reason it can't have its own little landscape
section.
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Guy Hermans wrote in message ...
>Hello,
>
>I'm desperately trying to print an existing table vertically ("landscape")
>on an "portrait" orientated page in a Word document, since the table is
>quite broad.
>
Shaun Hillis
Although I don't know his reason for needing this, I have the same problem
with my master's thesis. All my page numbers have to be in the same place
(bottom centered) with a portrait orientation. I am having the exact same
problem as Guy.
Shaun Hillis
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in message ...
Scott Matthewman
In this situation, I'd do the following:
1) Create a new section for your lanscape table, and make that section
landscape instead of portrait.
2) Don't use the standard headers and footers as for other sections.
Instead, create a text box with the header/footer information, and
rotate _that_ so that, when your document is printed, to the human eye
it's in the same place.
It's fiddly, I know. Believe me, it's the best way - I've tried them
all!
Scott (who would LOVE to be proved wrong on this one ;-) )
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Portrait Page Number to a Landscape Page." If I'd realized that was all Guy
was trying to do, I would have referenced that article in the first place!
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Scott Matthewman wrote in message ...
Victor Delgadillo
correct place) to print the header and footer information, and then make and
print the page(s) from a different document formatted landscape. It is
faster for the casual user than trying to print the header and footer on its
side and make it fit for only few pages. (I'm assuming presentation and not
time-saving procedure here).
Victor Delgadillo
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