rotate table (Word 2002)

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Hi,

Can someone tell me if it is possible to rotate a table so it appears portrait mode versus landscape mode (I don’t mean by rotating text within a cell)? The table is in the middle of a document that is using headers and footers. Currently the page the table is on is in landscape mode which puts the header and footer on the “sides” of the page once the page is stapled with the rest of the document.

Thanks,

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Hi Teresa:
The usual request is to place a table on a landscape page while still keeping portrait
header/footers. Ed Weber designed an add-on to do this, although I can’t recall now if he
ever ultimately OK’d distributing it.

Nevertheless, your issue is simpler. Select the entire table & cut it. Switch the section
to portrait & then paste the table back where you want it. However, you may have to adjust
the column width or font size so that it fits on the page.

By the way, I posted this answer to your question in the DWT forum that we both subscribe to, but he server must have been down.
Cheers,

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Phil,

Thanks for the solution, but that’s not what I’m looking for. I would have to reformat the table to fit the smaller width, which would look awful since one of the columns has a lot of text in each cell. I want to keep the table in landscape, but have the headers at the top and bottom as if the page were portrait. I like the way you phrased it…place a landscape table while keeping portrait header/footer.

I asked the same question in DWT yesterday, but haven’t heard anything.

Thanks,

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Hi Teresa:
OK, now I understand the question. I will check with Ed Weber regarding the add-on. In the meantime, take a look at post 1117 which I copied from Bill Coan & post 30165.

Cheers,

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Thanks, Phil. Wow! you’re quick! I’ll give these a try.

Thanks,

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Hi Teresa:
I checked my past emails with Ed Weber. He said it was fine to distribute his add-in, but to remind people that it’s a work in progress & only works with text-only headers…no graphics or text boxes. Either put the template in your startup folder & it will always be available or put it in your templates folder & load it through Tools/Tempalates & add-ins.
Cheers,

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Phil,
I was just looking for this very thing. However, I can’t figure out how to use Ed Weber’s template. Is it a template or a Macro? I tried saving it as both and can’t figure out how it works. I”m not the brightest bulb in the box, so would you mind explaining? Thanks.

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The document in Phil’s attachment is neither a template nor a macro, it contains the text of a macro. If you want to use it, select the entire document (Ctrl+A) and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C).
Then create a module in the Visual Basic Editor. If you want to be able to use the macro in any document, create the module in your Normal.dot.
Paste the code into the module (Ctrl+V).
To see what the macro does, open or create a document with some text and with headers and/or footers. Position the insertion point where you want to insert a landscape page, then select Tools | Macro | Macros, select InsertLandscapeSection2 and click Run. The macro will insert a page in landscape mode, with the headers and footers rotated over 90 degrees.

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I did copy everything into a macro. I then opened a word document, ran the macro, and absolutely nothing happened. Perhaps I’ll start over and try again.

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It does work – I tested it while composing my previous reply. So yes, start over and try again.

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I reinvented this procedure last week, and it worked fine, but I had some trouble in step 15, with “…Size and position the textbox as desired.”

I created a single large text box in the header. This makes more sense to me than defining the header and footer separately, which would double the amount of work I must do each time I use the technique.

It seemed to me that the easiest and most reliable way to position the text box would be to make it the same size as the page and then align it with the page. That eliminates the problem of how to position the text box reproducibly, so that its contents do not have to be repositioned by trial and error each time a new box is placed on a page.

This proved to be very difficult. When I tried to drag the text box into place, it refused to go where I put it. Whenever I tried to bring it within a certain distance of the page’s right edge, it “bounced back” when I released it.

When I gave up on the mouse and tried to position the text box with the arrow keys, things got even weirder. The right arrow key moved the text box to the left. The left arrow key did the same.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Found a solution?

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Click anywhere in the text box.
Select Format | Text Box…
Activate the Layout tab.
Make sure that another style than “In line with text” has been selected.

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>Click anywhere in the text box.
>Select Format | Text Box…
>Activate the Layout tab.
>Make sure that another style than “In line with text” has been selected.

I appreciate your undertaking to help, but it’s not that. The text box is already set to “in front of text,” which seems like the most appropriate choice for this purpose.

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It is often more reliable to adjust text boxes, frames, and floating table positions via the dialogs instead by dragging them. In the format text box, Layout tab, Advanced dialog, set the horizontal and vertical positions relative to the page to 0. Also, on the Size tab, set the size to the size of your paper.

Pam

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PamCaswell replied:

>It is often more reliable to adjust text boxes… via the dialogs…. In the
>format text box, Layout tab, Advanced dialog, set the horizontal and vertical
>positions relative to the page to 0.

It sure is! I wanted to do that, but when I found a “Size” tab that let me set size and size only, I thought that Microsoft had decided not to let the form set position. Thank you for pointing out that they hid position in a separate dialog box opened from a different tab.

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You are welcome. I hope the info helped fix your problem text box.

Pam

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If Pam Caswell’s suggestions don’t help, could you attach a sample document demonstrating the problem? You can remove most or all of the text.

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