Now that I've talked about tables for a while, you're feeling good about the whole thing until you realize that the huge table you've been tasked to create is just never ever going to fit. All that data is just way too wide to fit between the margins of a standard page.
Fortunately, you can insert a landscape-oriented page in a document. So you can put your huge table in sideways. This type of problem happens a lot if you create reports and other large documents.
To insert your landscape page, it's is much easier to work in Normal view so you can see the page breaks (choose View|Normal) and show non-printing characters (click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar) so you can see paragraph marks.
The easiest thing to do is create your table in a separate landscape document first and save it. Then you copy the table onto a landscape page you set up for it in a portrait document. So first you create your report in portrait orientation. When you are ready to add your table, go to the page before where you want it to appear. Choose Insert|Break|Next Page and click OK to add a blank page. After your page break, press Return and choose Insert|Break|Next Page again. (Or you can insert a page break by pressing Ctrl+Enter.)
You now have a blank page with nothing but a blank paragraph return on it. (In Normal view, it looks like two lines that say Page Break with a paragraph mark in between them.) Highlight the paragraph mark and choose File|Page Setup. In the Paper Size tab, select Landscape Orientation. Be sure to change the drop-down box to Selected text and click OK.
Now switch to your table document and choose Table|Select|Table and press Ctrl+C to copy it. In your report, highlight your paragraph mark on your blank landscape page and press Ctrl+V to paste your table into your new page. |
