How can I rotate a table 90 degrees in microsoft word?

I need to rotate the entire table, including text by 90 degrees, so I can make the columns wider. I don't want to go through the trouble of creating a new table and rotating text boxes in each. Help?How can I rotate a table 90 degrees in microsoft word?
Ha! Great question; I just learnt something myself by fiddling around. Let me show you a trick!



You've been told to create a new document in landscape to allow for more room etc... but that doesn't answer your question.



You can rotate the text in the table - no problem. Just select the table and go to the Format menu --%26gt; Text direction. But that still doesn't answer your question.



If you have Excel, then there is a solution:



- Copy your entire table and just paste it into Excel.

- Select your table IN EXCEL and copy it. There is a good reason for copying it again, but in Excel.

- Go to a different sheet (or scroll down further so that you have a clean space) and select a cell (like A1)

- Go to the Edit menu --%26gt; Paste Special and click on the box beside ';Transpose'; and press OK.

- VOILA! Your entire table has been turned 90 degrees!

- Copy the whole thing and paste it back into Word.



You may have to fix up some colours/formatting, but at least you don't have to go to the effort of recreating/typing that entire table.



Thanks for asking this question - I had no idea you could do that.How can I rotate a table 90 degrees in microsoft word?
Excel solution - The transpose option exchanges the columns and rows. Unfortunately, it does not rotate a table. If you somehow managed to do this, let us know how.



Page orientation - Sadly, there can be severe printing issues when using different page orientations within section breaks.

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Start a new document



Set it up as landscape



Copy and paste in your table.



Adjust it to the size you need.



Copy your table and then



Paste Special the table as a graphic like a bitmap (not a MS Object) into your source document.



Now you can rotate it and treat it like any other graphic - you just can't edit it.
you dont need to rotate the table



if you have word 2003:

go to a new document then file%26gt;page setup and change the layout to horizontal



if you have word 2007:

go to a new document select the page setup tab and change the orientation to horizontal



then copy and paste the table from the other document and widen it
I don't recall Word being able to rotate text or utilize text boxes (changing the page layout to landscape could be an alternative).



Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I recommend you do this on PowerPoint, it's going to be a time saver instead of trying to do all this process manually.
Unfortunately you can not.
You might try selecting the page and setting it to landscape.



Not a perfect fix, but it might help.