Cutting and pasting from word table cells into indesign table cells - correcting wrong direction

Question

Hi all,

I'm replicating a table from a word doc within an indesign document, that I'm designing for a client in the non-profit sector. The table is about 30 pages long so I need to set it up well from the start so it's less painful for the pages to follow.

Here's the issue, when I copy a ROW of info from cells, then paste into a ROW in my design doc, it pastes everything vertically rather than horizontally. I've researched the heck of this and can't find a solution to this simple problem. See images below.

Any suggestions? I'm not going to place the table from the word doc by the way - too many glitches/messy issues when I tried this.

Thanks in advance!

Cam

Cameronsugden · Accepted Answer

Thanks James and Eugene - appreciate the advice.

Importing the table from a word doc was way too glitchy no matter what I did - including the above. It's a 30 page table (silly i know) so I'm building it again in Indesign to get it right.

I found a solution - the page was rotated, meaning the text was being pasted in the wrong direction. Once I rotated the page, it was fine. I'll complete the table, then rotate the table (not the page). This seems to work.

Thanks again.

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

Try importing the Word doc, or at least the pages with tables in them, to a dummy InDesign doc, then cut and paste from that doc.

If it gets around this strange flaw, you could advance the technique by pre-editing and -formatting the tables in the intermediate doc, and save time in the final doc.

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