How to rotate a large table

I'm building a long technical report with Pages'08.
There are many tables in this report.
This document is in portrait format.
In the middle of this document I have a particularly large
table which can't be read if I try to stay on a portrait
presentation of this table: too many columns (15).
Hence I'd like to find an easy way to either rotate
the page or the table so as to be able to use larger
columns.
I discovered that Pages'08 doesn't permit to put one
page in landscape format. I also abandonned the idea of
using 3 different documents (part 1 in portrait,
part 2 in landscape, part 3 in portrait again).
I have to chain the paragraph numbers.
I have to make a table of content at the end of
this technical report.
What is the most efficient way to manage to fill this large
table.
Word let me do this, but unfortunately it does also
make me spend toomuch time on other simple and basic functions.
Is Pages'09 better on this basic and frequent need (at least for my job)?
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As long as you'll see students making graphics with pen on paper,
you'll see the missing keystone of the software empire.
dan</pre>

Peggy wrote:
You can rotate a floating table, but it can be a problem if you need to edit the table. It will auto-rotate to portrait to edit it but it can be difficult to see or get to the outside edges. I find it easiest to copy & paste the table into a landscape document the copy it back after editing.
Thank you for the nice hint.
I finally choosed to work on a temporary document in A3 format,
and keep it open so as to be able to quickly copy my table in the
main document every time I update it.
During this copy operation I noticed a boring problem:
as the text column in my main document is slightly smaller than my table,
Pages decide to shrink it every time, and I can't recover it's
original size (which I penibly tuned up in my A3 document).
Hence all the cell contents are partially hidden.
The button:
Inspector > Metrics > Original Size
is off.
Do you know how to circumvent this bad habit of Pages to resize my
imported table?
<pre>--------
As long as you'll see students making graphics with pen on paper,
you'll see the missing keystone of the software empire.
dan</pre>

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