Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

[Alison Craig]

Version: FM9 (9.0p237)
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OS: XP Pro with SP3
FM Experience: 10 months
Tech Comm Experience: 15 years


I am condensing a bunch of repeated table content into 2 or 3 tables. Due to the data format and my page size, I would like to use Landscape format tables in a Portrait format manual.

Using my Scriptorium book, I played around with their instructions but that actually made the entire Appendix Landscape which is not what I want/need as there will be a some regular title/text content that should be Portrait style, including the Appendix Heading.

My book files use Master Pages set up with right and left pages (these were configured by a contractor as I didn't have the experience to set this up on my own). I understand the concepts of what was done but perhaps not all the details which is why I tried the Scriptorium book to sort this out.

I think what I need are several text flows within the Appendix so that I can format the "table text flows" as Landscape but leave the rest of the document (including all Headers and Footers) as Portrait.

I've thought about using Text Insets to bring in the tables but I'm not sure how I would insert them in Landscape format - although I think I could create them that way in my existing Text Inset file.

FYI: I use table titles before the table (to which the table is anchored). I type in the title and format it with a Table Para tag that numbers the table based on Chapter/Appendix and the table number within the Chapter/Appendix (eg, Table 3-1: xxx, Table B-4: xxx).

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

Alison

Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>