Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

[Alison Craig]

That's what I'm doing (the appendix will only deal with this data) but this option rotated the entire text flow and I want the first section to be a standard discussion section with a portrait style Appendix heading.

I only want the tables to be rotated. 

Alison

 
Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Spreadbury [mailto:dspreadb at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:52 AM
To: Alison Craig; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

Alison,
I ran into this very problem back a while ago. Put your tables in a separate
chapter/appendix file and rotate the table.

You can find the instructions if you search the help for "Rotating cells and
tables".

HTH

David Spreadbury
Sr. Technical Writer

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alison Craig
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:40 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

Version: FM9 (9.0p237)
Unstructured
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>