[dba-Tech] Landscape table in a portrait document

Cool. For this particular article I don't need that, but I think I'll grab it for future use.

Arthur


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From: Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 5:42:43 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Landscape table in a portrait document


On 1/28/07, artful at rogers.com <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> I need to place a table in a Word document (I'm using Excel to create the table, then copying and pasting it). I would like the table to occupy a whole page in the document, and to be in landscape format, while the rest of the document is in portrait format.
>
> I tried saving the Excel document in landscape then copying and pasting the table into Word, but that didn't work.
>
> Any ideas?

As Stuart says, you need to put section breaks around the table,
however if you want to keep the headers and footers in portrait mode,
you will need to do a little more work.

Assuming W2K or better, have a look at:

http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wrd&Number=194127&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1#Post194127

There is an add-in template that will run the appropriate code to
setup the page to use far-east settings to keep the headers/footers in
place and make the text rotate by 90 deg Clockwise.

If you want to skip the reading and just get the template, it is at:

http://www.wopr.com/w3tfiles/10-194127-RotateDocAddIn.zip

In the  interest of full disclosure, yes I did write the add-in.

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