General ⇒ Center Sideways Text in Table

[nick]

Does anyone know how to center sideways text in a table?

Example:

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
& \begin{sideways}USERNAME\end{sideways}&
\begin{sideways}PASSW\end{sideways}\\
\hline
NAME1 & x & x \\
\hline
NAME2 & x & x \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

I wish to vertically center the sideways text 'USERNAME' and 'PAS' .
I would like to avoid using the \array package.

Many thanks in advance,
Nick

[localghost]

Use the \rotatebox command from graphicx to rotate the LR-box in the third column of the head.

Code: Select all

\begin{tabular}{|*{3}{c|}} \cline{2-3}
  \multicolumn{1}{c|}{}&\rotatebox{90}{USERNAME}&\rotatebox{90}{\makebox[\widthof{USERNAME}]{PASSW}} \\ \hline
  NAME1 & x & x \\ \hline
  NAME2 & x & x \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

To get familiar with the syntax of the \makebox command, refer to basic LaTeX documentation.


Best regards
Thorsten¹