How do you print 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" labels in portrait?

[Gary]

For labeling packages, using Avery labels with 2 labels per 8 1/2" x
11" sheet creates 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" labels. If you hold the paper the
normal way (portrait), 8 1/2" across by 11" high, then the individual
labels on the page are landscape, 8 1/2" wide x 5 1/2" high.

Creating documents in this way in Word results in labels which print
landscape, i.e., wider than they are high. Yet I find the labels which
print on a portrait 5 1/2" wide x 8 1/2" high look better.

But I can't figure out how to create portrait labels in Word. The
print would look sideways as it was coming out the printer. The only
success I've had is to pre-cut the paper into two separate labels and
feed them in through the alternate feed as miniature portrait paper 5
1/2" wide x 8 1/2" high. Then I could print out in normal portrait
mode.

Is there a way to do this without pre-cutting?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Gary:

It's not impossible but it's a lot of fiddling around in Word, because Word
can rotate text only in Tables.

You may want to try this in Excel, which CAN rotate text.

If not, set yourself up a Landscape page and place a one-row, two column
table in it.

Then rotate the text 90 degrees in each of he cells.

Hope this helps

For labeling packages, using Avery labels with 2 labels per 8 1/2" x
11" sheet creates 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" labels. If you hold the paper the
normal way (portrait), 8 1/2" across by 11" high, then the individual
labels on the page are landscape, 8 1/2" wide x 5 1/2" high.

Creating documents in this way in Word results in labels which print
landscape, i.e., wider than they are high. Yet I find the labels which
print on a portrait 5 1/2" wide x 8 1/2" high look better.

But I can't figure out how to create portrait labels in Word. The
print would look sideways as it was coming out the printer. The only
success I've had is to pre-cut the paper into two separate labels and
feed them in through the alternate feed as miniature portrait paper 5
1/2" wide x 8 1/2" high. Then I could print out in normal portrait
mode.

Is there a way to do this without pre-cutting?

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