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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated January 22, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365
If you are working with tables in a document, at some point you may find it helpful to transpose the contents of the table, so that rows become columns and columns become rows.
There is no way to do this in Word. There is, however, a way to transpose rows and columns in Excel. So, the typical method of accomplishing this task is to use both Word and Excel, using these general steps:
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2022-01-24 09:52:41
Andrew
Funny, I just had the need for this functionality just the other week, so I "hocked up" this macro to create a "transposed" table in a separate document. This is highly not robust, and could have some error checking, but that was taking me down a rabbit hole I didn't have time for.
Andy.
Sub TableTranspose()
' Rotates columns to rows and vice versa
Dim OriginalTable As Table
Dim TransposedTable As Table
Dim NewDoc As Document
Dim a As Long, b As Long
Set OriginalTable = Selection.Tables(1)
Set NewDoc = Documents.Add
Set TransposedTable = NewDoc.Tables.Add(NewDoc.Content, OriginalTable.Columns.Count, OriginalTable.Rows.Count)
For a = 1 To OriginalTable.Rows.Count
For b = 1 To OriginalTable.Columns.Count
TransposedTable.Cell(b, a).Range.Text = OriginalTable.Cell(a, b).Range.Text
Next b
Next a
TransposedTable.Select
End Sub
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here:
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