How to write text in table vertically

[Wolfgang Deininger]

Hi everybody in the community,

I have a question related to the confluence tables. Is there a possibility, that the text can ve written vertically (turned 90°, same as the function in MS Excel)?

Thank you very much and best regards,

Wolfgang

[Stiltsoft support · Accepted solution]

Hi @Wolfgang Deininger ,

We can suggest trying the app that we develop - Table Filter, Charts & Spreadsheets for Confluence.

If you are talking about native Confluence tables, you may use the Table Transformer macro and its Stylesheet tab where you can apply CSS for formatting.

For example, you may try this code:

td {writing-mode: vertical-lr;
transform: rotate(180deg);}

And if you prefer to work with Excel-like UI, you may insert the Table Spreadsheet macro. Besides cell formulas, filtration, pivot tables and other basic functions, the option to rotate text is also present.

[Wolfgang Deininger]

Thank you very much!

[Nikola Perisic · Accepted solution]

Hello @Wolfgang Deininger 

Sadly, this feature is only available for Data Center, not on Cloud. You can look on the marketplace for some of the application. So far, there on what I've found there are like 10 of them. Each has its own free trial that you can cancel at anytime.

[Jolyon]

Do you know if there is a feature request for this for Atlassian Cloud?

[Nikola Perisic]

Natively in Jira, this is not in the roadmap currently.

[Jolyon]

for Jira Cloud I've used https://www.verticalmacro.com/.   Its o.k., but a bit clunky and doesn't seem to support Dark mode.