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First, thank you to EVERYONE who responded to my desperate plea for
assistance with the absurdities of Word: more than 25 people replied with
help! What a group!
SUMMARY:
There are work-arounds to the fact that Word does not make it easy to place
headers/footers on the short edge of a landscape page. Each is just about
as difficult as the rest. None are terrible. Here they are:
If you're creating a table from scratch, there are 2 options:
1. Create the table from scratch with the horizontal rows (as you look at
your screen) containing the column data and the vertical columns (as you
look at your screen) containing the row data. Then you use Word's Text
Direction feature to rotate the text. <Thank you Sarah Abbott, Lisa Comeau,
Deryn Scott, Sean, Kim Wilhelm>
2. Create 2 portrait tables on facing pages. <Thank you Dan Roberts>
If you've inherited an ugly table, like I did, you have a couple more
options:
3. Place a section break immediately before and immediately after the ugly
table. Change the properties of the section to landscape. Draw a text box
at the short edges of the page and insert your header/footer text.
Caveats: Word doesn't like field codes in the text box; therefore, no
auto-numbering! And you can't copy and paste a text box, so you have to
draw a new one for each header and footer on each page. Really sucks when
you have an 11 page ugly table! <Thank you Anna Biunno, Meg Halter, Kate
Kane, Kate Kreuger, Lisa Schaeffer, Kathleen Matuszek, Richard Feldman>
4. Copy the ugly table from Word into a graphics program like Corel (or
PowerPoint...although I couldn't make it work quite in PowerPoint). Save as
a graphic. Rotate the graphic 90 degrees. Paste back in Word.
Caveat: You won't be able to edit your graphic like you would a table.
However, with the PowerPoint option, Word knows where the original came from
(that incestuous MicroSoft relationship), and it's not hard to edit. <Thank
you Alex Ingles, Damien Braniff, Ellen Ewald, Kate Kreuger, Paul Strasser>
5. (I used this one). Cut the ugly table out of the original document and
paste it into a new one, all by itself. Set the properties of the new doc
to landscape. Leave the properties of the original doc portrait. Insert
one hard page break for each page of table you have. Insert headers and
footers on the blank pages. Print the original doc, with the blank pages.
Put the blank pages back in the printer (properly aligned...you'll have to
test your printer...see instructions below) and print the table on top of
the blank pages. Voila!
Caveat: No one else will ever be able to print this file! <Thank you Jeff
Wiggin, Katav,
How to test the printer...
Take one sheet of paper (unused).
On the upper right hand corner of the paper write: UTR
(up/top/right) or anything else that will remind you
how you positioned the paper.
Put the UTR paper into the printer's paper tray so
that UTR is facing up.
Print anything - this email, even.
Note how it printed on the paper vis-a-vis the UTR.
Insert your previously printed protrait pages so the
landscape pages will print where you want them.
<Thank you Katav!>
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Jennifer Delmerico, Sr. Tech Writer
TST, Inc.
Atlanta, GA USA
770-446-3211
jennifer -dot- delmerico -at- tstnet -dot- com
