Table Text Direction

Question

I need help making the text in the top row of a table orient vertically. The header text in each cell is long so I want it to either be vertical or on a 60-degree angle or so. I can't find any place in Pages to accomplish this format change.
Help?

Answer 1

I have used this technique successfully but I found it useful to use the *table inspector* to first check the size of the cell in which the vertical text is to be placed.
Then add a textbox and using the *metric inspector* make the textbox dimensions the same as the target table cell and to change the rotation to 90-degrees (if you wish the text to read from bottom to top) or 180-degrees (if you want the text to read from top to bottom).
Enter the text as required (the textbox flips to horizontal while the text is being modified) – changing the font size if necessary.
Then with the aid of the guidelines it is fairly easy to drag the textbox to the target table cell and position it correctly.
If there are several such header cells, it is probably then easier to Option-Drag the first textbox to the other target cells and then modify the text for each one than to repeat the process from the start.
I found that it was also better to remove textbox border using the *graphic inspector*.