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What if you…
– set the document up with the “wrong” page orientation (landscape for portrait and v.v.)
– set the table up with the rows as the columns, and the columns as the rows BUT the top row of this table has the column names (product characteristics) *in reverse order* with the right-most column having the list of product names
– don’t allow cells to break across pages
– set the first row as a header row to display on all pages (if required)
– rotate all the text in the table 90°
– Print to PDF but impose the pages “the other way round”

This way, the table extends across multiple pages, and the final column widths (actually row heights) can be adjusted as you wish.

Hard to explain without a sample, so for 7 days only, my test file is on WeTransfer at https://we.tl/vfFlrN6f5X.

Good luck,
Chris.

This article was last modified on November 17, 2015

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