Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

[Writer]

You can put a table into an anchored frame and then rotate it. See the FM9 user guide, p. 200.

OT: I see you're using patch 237. Patch 250 is available (just as an FYI).

Nadine

--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:

> From: Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com>
> Subject: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book
> To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 1:40 PM
> 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>
> 
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