Take a new direction with your tables (QuarkXPress)

Sometimes you need to convert a horizontal table to a vertical table or vice versa. Rather than deleting cells, adding cells, copying data, pasting data, and deleting the old data after you move it to the new location, there’s an easier way. QuarkXPress has options in the Convert Text To Table dialog box that make switching your table direction a snap.

To change your table’s direction:

1. Select the table with the Item tool.
2. Choose Item > Table > Convert Table To Text and click OK.
3. Highlight the text with the Content tool.
4. Choose Item > Convert Text To Table to display the Convert Text To Table dialog box.
5. Select Top Down, Left To Right instead of Left To Right, Top Down in the Cell Fill Order pop-up menu.
6. Click OK and your table is reoriented.

If the resulting table has extra cells than the original table had, the original table probably contained returns in the text. Returns will add extra cells to the resulting table.