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• • December 16, 2010 at 2:50 am #58128
    hopeuk

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    …as the title suggests, I have imported into CS5 a Word file containg a large table, several pages long and many columns wide. I need to break this table up and also rotate in into landscape.

    At the monet I have played around with the table function and find it useful, but can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate it AND its contents.

    By using the rotation tool it appears to rotate the text within the table, but not the table as an object (ie I want to rotate the whole table, columns and all, not just the content within each cell)

    Again, as a new ID user, I am sure I'm being dumb here, and I have bad Quark habits I'm trying to shake, so any help here however basic would be appreciated.

    All in all I have been impressed with tthe way ID handles tables, but this is the first time I have had to ratate one…and at the moment I'm struggling!

    Help!

  • December 16, 2010 at 5:15 am #58131
    Chris Thompson

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    Do you mean swap rows for columns?

    The only simple “I'm not a programmer” way I've found to do that is in Excel, where it's known as Transpose. You have to select all the table, copy it, and then preferably in a new Excel file, Edit/Paste Special and there's a tickbox “Transpose”.

    regards, Chris.

  • December 16, 2010 at 6:53 am #58132
    hopeuk

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    Thanks for the comments Chris…what I mean is as stated really…if you have a page, and the table is currently displayed in word in a portrait manner, I need to import this into ID, and then rotate the table through 90 degrees to make it landscape onthe page.

    If I take the table as is when imported, and highlight it, then rotate…it simply rotates all of the text within each cell through 90 degrees…not the actual table.

    I'm sure there must be some simple way of rotating a table, or perhaps importing it in a slightly differnt manner to enable me to do this. Surely I can select the 'table' as opposed to the 'content' and then simply apply some rotation?

    I certainly don't want to have to go back to the word file if I can help it…I don't feel I should have to, surely you can do this in ID, I just don't know how…lol

  • December 16, 2010 at 7:12 am #58133
    Chris Thompson

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    Select the text box that the table's in and rotate that (right-click – Transform – Rotate)?

    Although that doesn't help on the second and subsequent pages, so to avoid rotating lots of text boxes, you'd need a text frame on the master page(s), rotated on the master pages, and it should flow through. Just tried with a test file and it does just that.

    Good luck, Chris.

  • December 16, 2010 at 8:00 am #58134
    hopeuk

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    Brilliant…obvious really!!

    Many thanks for this, funny how sometimes you just can't see the wood for the trees!!

    Cheers

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