Portrait/Landscape

ceedoubleyou · Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 3

I think I've asked this before, but how do I change from portrait to landscape?

pitonyak · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Portrait/Landscape

rowan10 · Newbie Joined: 17 Jul 2012 Posts: 2

1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
2. Click the Page Size tab, and under Page orientation, click either Portrait or Landscape.
The drawing page orientation is set for the current page.
3. If the thumbnail preview shows that your drawing page orientation doesn't match your printer paper orientation, click the Print Setup tab, and under Orientation, click either Portrait or Landscape.

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pitonyak · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:01 am Post subject:

Nice explanation rowan10, great first post.... and welcome to the forum.
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rowan10 · Newbie Joined: 17 Jul 2012 Posts: 2

Thanks pitonyak i am glad to be a part of this forum and i want to share more !!
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CrazyFerretLady · Newbie Joined: 20 Aug 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Norway

I've done all of the above, but the preview doesn't change.. The orientation remains portrait.

Please help me..

jrkrideau · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:57 am Post subject:

GSD4ME · General User Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 12

Excuse my jumping in but I am having similar problems with page orientation.
I am running OO on Ubuntu - latest release I believe.
I have to produce a document containing accounts and the first 3 pages are blurb - to be in portrait format. No problem. Next 4 pages need to be in landscape to show a year-to-a-page cash flow statement, 12 months for each, and a wide page enables the information to be shown nice and neatly. Pages after that are to revert to portrait with other accounts information.
The page formatting that I want to do seems almost impossible to achieve in OO Writer.
I have looked at various discussions on the internet and it has been suggested how to get round it but the methods described were convoluted and everyone in *that* forum said what a waste of effort just to format a couple of pages.
Alternatively, the ALBA extension has been suggested. I have installed that and it *seems* to work for each of the individual pages that I want in landscape *BUT* in doing so, it changes pages 1 to 3 to landscape as well - thus ruining the portrait display for those pages. So I went back and reset pages 1 to 3 back to portrait and now the 3rd and 4th of my landscape pages are now in portrait as well!
I have tried putting the landscape pages into a separate document and then 'inserting' this file into my 'master' but that doesn't work either.
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGH!!
Can I please have a foolproof and easy method to be able to change 4 simple pages into landscape whilst avoiding changing everything else.
(BTW - I am going off OpenOffice due to its many vagaries and the complex ways it does things for no reason. I would rather not go back to Windows (I have a dual-boot) but I get so frustrated at not being able to do what I want and having to spend hours searching the web for answers and methods to enable me what I want to do.
And don't get me started on Calc and its version of Basic and macros)

floris_v · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:47 am Post subject:

Try Tutorial on Page styles and headers/footers. That should clear up how page styles work.
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