Rotate text in multirow table without specifying parbox size

Question

I'm sorry for the extra question, but I'm not allowed to answer directly on this topic. Is there a way to not specify the size of parboxes, but just choose cell size for this?

As a MWE, you can use the one mentioned under the initial topic:

 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage{array,multirow,graphicx}
 \begin{document}
 \begin{table}[H]
 \centering
 \begin{tabular}{|c|l|r|r|r|r|}
 \hline
 & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Text} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Text} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Text} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Text} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{text}\\
 \hline
 \parbox[t]{2mm}{\multirow{3}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{rota}}} & text &&&&\\
 & text &&&&\\
 & text &&&&\\
 \hline
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}
 \end{document}

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 16 '17 at 17:20

Your MWE has many errors ... use of \parbox{...} is wrong and also it is surplus. With use of the macro \thead{...} from package makecell you can simplified columns headers:

 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage{array, makecell, multirow, graphicx}
 \renewcommand\theadfont{\normalsize}

 \begin{document}
     \begin{table}[ht]
 \centering
 \begin{tabular}{|c|l|r|r|r|r|}
    \hline
    & \thead{Text} & \thead{Text} & \thead{Text} & \thead{Text} & \thead{text} \\     
    \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{rota}} 
    & text          &&&&    \\     
    & text          &&&&    \\     
    & text          &&&&    \\     
    \hline
 \end{tabular}
     \end{table}
 \end{document}

Note: don't use table option H (in your case it not working since package, which provide it, is missing). Better is ht (here or if is not enough place for table/image, on top of the next page).

Rotate text in multirow table without specifying parbox size

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