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15 Responses to “Vertical text in the table in Latex”

1. Lukas Says:
   December 13th, 2005 at 10:14 pm

   Thanks. That’s exactly what I was searching for.

2. Neil Says:
   December 14th, 2005 at 6:31 pm

   Yep, me too!

3. daan Says:
   May 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

   Me too, thanks.

   don’t forget \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{rotating}

4. graham Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 1:13 am

   Hi,

   I’ve just been searching the web trying to work out how to do that with a table in my thesis!

   It work great!

   thanks!

5. toby Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 7:13 am

   me too

6. Vixlow Says:
   February 11th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

   Try to use this, it works pretty well multirow{14}{*}{rotatebox{90}{mbox{text}}}

7. Emine Says:
   May 9th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

   I think Vixlow meant,

   multirow{14}{*}{rotatebox{90}{mbox{text}}}

   and it work very well. I can rotate the text to any direction.

8. ganesh Says:
   October 1st, 2007 at 11:07 am

   cool, just the thing i wanted; works great! thanks

9. Simon de Hartog Says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am

   I’ve tried the more simple variant, here a somewhat more complete example: \begin{table}[htbp] \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|} \hline & {\begin{sideways}Admin. of devs in range\end{sideways}} & {\begin{sideways}Publish/subscribe\end{sideways}} & {\begin{sideways}Distributed mutexes\end{sideways}} & {\begin{sideways}\parbox{47mm}{Service behaviour reporting}\end{sideways}} \ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{\label{tbl-scenfeat}Scenarios and their key features} \end{table}

10. Simon de Hartog Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Hmmm, apply backslashes where approriate

11. tadekp Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Just added slashes. Given that this one-line post is single the most frequently visited post on my blog, I really should update in

12. Ago Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Hi everybody! Without you I would have never arrived to write my vertical text! But life is full of problems, and my vertical text is at the side of a figure, and it’s shorter than the heigh oh the figure, and I would like to vertically center the text. I know it’s vertically alligned with the center of the figure, and I’m not able to move it… Please help me!

    Here’s my code.

    \begin{figure}[t]

    \begin{tabular}{cc}

    \begin{sideways}\parbox{50mm}{Cell response}\end{sideways} &

    \includegraphics[width=4.5cm]{grafica/ori0.eps}}

    \end{tabular}

    \end{figure}

13. George Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    works well for my article, thanks!

14. Levin Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Works great! Thanks! Those who want vertically centered text simply use:

    {\begin{sideways}\parbox{5cm}{\centering text}\end{sideways}}

15. Götz Says:
    November 9th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks a lot fo this blog entry! Though the code in the post wasn’t the best solution for me, other suggestions like \rotatebox{90}{\mbox{text}} are looking easier and are working perfect for me.

    Kind regards, Götz

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