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Adjusting Table Text Orientation and Location
You now have the basic layout of the table, with one difference. The Floor, Base, Wall, and
Ceiling labels you just added are oriented horizontally, but you want them oriented vertically,
as in Figure 10.5. The following steps will show you how to rotate a set of labels in a table so
they appear in the orientation you want:
1.
Click the cell labeled Floor to select it. The Table Cell palette appears.
2.
Click in the cell labeled Ceiling to select all four of the cells below the Finish heading. The
combined cells have four grips, one on each side of the group.
3.
Click the grip at the bottom of the selected group, and move it down about four rows.
Click to “fix” the row height in place. The entire row becomes taller. This provides room
for the text when you rotate it.
4.
In the Properties Inspector palette, click the Text Rotation input box under the Content
c at e gor y.
5.
Enter
90
↵ for a 90-degree rotation of the text. The text rotates into a vertical orientation. You
can also use the circular slider located to the right of the text input box to set the rotation.
With the text in this orientation, the columns are too wide, so you'll change the cell width
for the selected cells.
6.
Move the right grip to the left to decrease the width of the cells.
