Rotate a table in word

Question

I have a word 2007 document in portrait mode. I have a table that is too wide to fit in 8.5" but would fit in 11". Is there a way to make just one page landscape? Or alternately is there a way to rotate a table 90 degrees?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. Insert a section break before and after the page you want to turn to landscape and then you can use page layout on that page only. Also, here is another approach using margins.

In general, section breaks in Word are a good way to change any of the settings that you usually think of as global to your document. For example, you can use section breaks to change the way page numbers work in the middle of the document, to change margins, orientation, and more.

Answer 2

I figured it out. You can copy the table in excel. Do a paste special with Transpose turned on. Then copy the transposed table over to Word. Finally, you can change the text orientation of the table to the text is rotated 90 degrees.

Answer 3

You want to rotate a table in word? its easy! :)

You can do teh following:

Copy paste:

1. Copy your table, paste to Excel

2. Copy your data (table) in Excel

3. Go to new sheet, then right click, select Paste Special..., tick to select Transpose, ok

Flip table:

1. Insert new column at leftest(A), type 1,2,3,....(in column A)

2. Arrange table Descending by A (No header row, Z-A)

3. Delete Column A (we just inserted)

Paste:

1. Copy data area (table), paste to Word (table will be chaos, don't worry)

2. Point to menu: Table\select\table, (to select table),>menu Edit\clear\format, >menu Format\text direction

3. Re-size cell for good looking

4. Done !

Answer 4

In my case I wanted to put the table on a 1-page document, with header and footer in portrait mode. So using sections was not an option.

Since the table was from Excel, I used paste-special and selected the Image option. As commented above, it does not allow editing within word, but gives the presentation quality I was looking for.

Answer 5

IMHO, transpose is not similar to rotation. So the excel's transpose is unlikely the solution. I do prefer the use of different paper orientation by assigning a subset of the document (section) to different paper orientation. Eg. section 1-2 are portrait, section 3 is landscape, section 4 is portrait. You may put your wide table in section 3.

My problem with different orientation is when i use header and/or footer in my document. We can still produce footer and/or header in section 3 in a way such that when we print the whole document and stack all the paper in portrait direction, the footer and/or header of section 3 are at lower and upper (respectively) side of the paper face. However, i find difficulties in making header and/or footer of section 3 to be exactly similar (in size and position) with those of other sections.

FYI i often use table of 1 row and 2 columns (containing chapter title and page number) in footer.

What do you think ?

Answer 6

have the cursor on the page before you want to start going to landscape. Then go to Page Layout-Margins. Then click on custom margins. Click on the orientation desired and then go to the bottom left in the "apply to" and pick the area. do not for get to change it back when you want to go back to Portrait

Answer 7

Print the table from excel as a .pdf, then insert the .pdf as a photo. You can then position it as you would any other object (with a rotation function).

Downside is you can't edit the table in word at this point, you have to go back to excel, edit the table, and re-print to pdf, and then replace the image in word.