Table: Rotate Column Headers

This script is part of the Tables collection. See the full collection here. 

This script is part of the Type and Text collection. See the full collection here. 

To rotate a cell’s contents, place the text cursor in the cell and select one of the rotation icons in the Table panel. Here, the content was rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise:

But as you can see, the cell’s height isn’t adjusted automatically, you’ll have to do that manually. It’s not difficult or a lot of work, but if you have a lot of tables it gets tedious. The script decribed here makes light work of it.

Use

To use the script, place the text cursor in any column heading and run the script. It has no interface. All the cells in the selected row are rotated and the row’s height is adjusted to the longest cell content:

(The script does not snap the columns to their widths. You can use the Table: Column Snap script for that.)

Note

The script defaults to 90 degrees counter-clockwise. You can change that in the script to 90 degrees clockwise by changing the number 270 to 90, other angles aren’t possible with this script.

If you do want other angles (30, 45, or 60 degrees) you can use a method and script created by Keith Gilbert.

Version history

Last updated 25 Jan. 2026

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