NOCTI Commercial Art Practice Test

In a table, data is organized into rows and columns, with rows forming the horizontal groups that stretch across the page. Each row represents a single record or item, containing all its related fields laid out left to right. This is why rows run horizontally, from left to right.

Columns, by contrast, run vertically, listing each field down the page. The other directions—diagonal or circular—don’t align with the grid structure of a table, so they aren’t used for describing how rows flow.

So, rows run horizontally.