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convert columns into rows
I really love the table function in Word; however, sometimes I've found that
I need to convert a row into a column or a column into a row and can't do it! I really think that whatever new version of Word should have this function. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.word.tables |
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:04:03 -0800, GreenEyedMedusa
wrote: I really love the table function in Word; however, sometimes I've found that I need to convert a row into a column or a column into a row and can't do it! I really think that whatever new version of Word should have this function. This function (called transposition) is provided by Excel, so Microsoft decided it wasn't needed within Word. Here are the steps: - Copy the table from Word to the clipboard and paste it into a blank Excel worksheet. - In Excel, copy the table again. - Move the cursor to a cell in an empty area of the worksheet. - On the toolbar, click the down arrow next to the Paste button and select Transpose. The swapped table will be pasted in, with its top left cell at the cursor. - Copy the transposed table from Excel and paste it into Word. Delete the old table. (Don't try to paste the transposed table into the old table; you'll get a mess.) If this is something you do often, it would be possible to program a macro to do it in one step. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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One day when in re-inventing the wheel mode, I created
' Transposer Macro ' Macro creaeted 18/01/1999 by Doug Robbins ' to transpose rows and columns in a table Dim NumCols as Long, NumRows as Long NumCols = ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Columns.Count NumRows = ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Rows.Count ActiveDocument.Tables.Add Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=NumCols, NumColumns:= _ NumRows RowCounter = 0 While RowCounter NumRows ColCounter = 0 While ColCounter NumCols CellText = ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(RowCounter + 1, ColCounter + 1).Range.Text CellText = Left(CellText, Len(CellText) - 2) ActiveDocument.Tables(2).Cell(ColCounter + 1, RowCounter + 1).Range.InsertBefore CellText ColCounter = ColCounter + 1 Wend RowCounter = RowCounter + 1 Wend -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "GreenEyedMedusa" wrote in message ... I really love the table function in Word; however, sometimes I've found that I need to convert a row into a column or a column into a row and can't do it! I really think that whatever new version of Word should have this function. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.word.tables |
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i know Excel offers transposition, but if one's interest is to make a table
of nothing but text, it's my opinion that Word is better because you can do alot more text formatting, especially with bullet lists... to my knowledge, Excel doesn't do that. The bullet list function in tables (which Word allows) is a really great tool for students who need to make charts of info to study from. That's why I would really like to see the transposition function in Word. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:04:03 -0800, GreenEyedMedusa wrote: I really love the table function in Word; however, sometimes I've found that I need to convert a row into a column or a column into a row and can't do it! I really think that whatever new version of Word should have this function. This function (called transposition) is provided by Excel, so Microsoft decided it wasn't needed within Word. Here are the steps: - Copy the table from Word to the clipboard and paste it into a blank Excel worksheet. - In Excel, copy the table again. - Move the cursor to a cell in an empty area of the worksheet. - On the toolbar, click the down arrow next to the Paste button and select Transpose. The swapped table will be pasted in, with its top left cell at the cursor. - Copy the transposed table from Excel and paste it into Word. Delete the old table. (Don't try to paste the transposed table into the old table; you'll get a mess.) If this is something you do often, it would be possible to program a macro to do it in one step. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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