Hi SWEngineer,

That shouldn't be necessary. Apart from anything else, it effectively makes the table uneditable.

In your previous post, all you mentioned was that you wanted to 'align the table horizontally'. You said nothing about rotation, which is an entirely different issue.

Word offers three basic ways of 'rotating' a table:
1. change the page layout from portrait to landscape;
2. change thetext orientation in the cells (which requires the table to be designed as if the rows & columns are transposed); and
3. insert the table into a textbox, then rotate the textbox.
Any of these methods leaves the content editable.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]