Formatting text sideways in a vertical column of a Pages table

Pages is not a Word clone and does not feature text rotation in a table cell. Never has.

Too bad you went to all of this table elaboration to discover that limitation. You can do this in Microsoft Word (e.g. 16.100.3), LibreOffice Writer (e.g. 25.8.1), or other modern Word clone. Should you re-import one of these Word documents where you have rotated text in a table cell, Pages will remove that feature since it is not implemented.

Hi ElkeBrown,

A long discussion about how to rotate Text Boxes and align them over table cells:

Rotate cell contents in Numbers

Another long discussion about how to rotate Text boxes, take screen shots of them and insert as Image Fill in table cells.

Rotate cells image fill discussion

After you have struggled through those posts in Apple Support Commumities (and you are still interested) please call back here with questions.

Regards,

Ian.

Probably either approach that you suggest will suffice if the final document format remains Pages or exported to PDF.

In a mixed platform environment (e.g. Windows Word users), this may lead to document incompatibility and animosity when exported to Word and those parenthetical users open the document. One cannot trust Apple's Quick Look of the exported Word document to display how the document will look when opened in Word, or even LibreOffice Writer.