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Using Latex to try to reproduce the multi-column table with rotation and wrapping of text in the example shown above. It is columns 2 and 3 of the attached image that is giving me the problems.
I've tried a variety things like \begin{rotate}{90} stuff \end{90} with no luck.
I've also tried to \begin{sideways} stuff \end{sideways} with no luck.
It might be easier than you think, but it's hard to say since I don't really know the contents of the table. Anyway, this is a little different from my ad hoc comment, but the principle is the same:
\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,booktabs,longtable}
\newcommand{\sameresearch}{%
\rotatebox[origin = r]{90}{\parbox[c]{3.5cm}{\hfill\bfs{Same Research Area}\\ \null\hfill (Yes/No)}}}%
\newcommand{\supportstatus}{%
\rotatebox[origin = r]{90}{\parbox[c]{4cm}{\hfill\bfs{Support Status}\\ (Requested/Current/Past)}}}%
\newcommand{\bfs}[1]{\textsf{\textbf{#1}}}%
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{%
@{}p{4cm} | p{1cm} | p{1cm} | p{3cm} |
p{1cm} | p{1cm} | p{1cm} | p{1cm} | p{1cm}}
\toprule
\bfs{Description}\par
(all named investigators on any Proposal or grant/ project/
fellowship in which a participant is/was involved, project title,
source of support, scheme and round) &
\sameresearch &
\supportstatus &
\bfs{Proposal/Project ID} (if applicable) &
\bfs{2012} (\$'000) &
\bfs{2013} (\$'000) &
\bfs{2014} (\$'000) &
\bfs{2015} (\$'000) &
\bfs{2016} (\$'000) \\
\midrule
&&&&&&&&\\
&&&&&&&&\\
\bottomrule
\end{longtable}
\end{document}
I should probably mention that the author of booktabs, and much of the TeX world, will tell you to avoid vertical rules like the plague. I would add in a much softer tone that it is bad (English) style to write 'grant/ project/ fellowship': the slash should not have space on one of its sides, though it may take a space on both of its sides if one or more of the 'halves' is more than one words long --- e.g., some might think it 'bad / not correct' practice.
\usepackage{graphicx} \newcommand{\rotatecol}[1]{\makebox[1em][l]{\rotatebox{90}{#1}}}; then in your table:\rotatecol{Same Research Area}and\rotatecol{Support Status}, etc. (Sometimes I like to use an angle of 60 degrees for things like these.) Also: the1emwill not be enough if your rotated columns need two lines of text.