Making page display horizontal?

[Rick]

How do you format only a single page in a document to display horizontal
rather than vertical? I want the other pages to remain vertical. Using
Word 2008.

Thanks!

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Rick;

What you want to do is change the Page Orientation form Portrait to
Landscape for that one page. In order to do that you need to create Section
Breaks to isolate that page, then change the orientation for that section.

See Word Help on the topic: Change page orientation

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Rick]

Thanks for your reply, though it only has info for changing the
orientation of the entire document and not a single page. Any help is
appreciated!!!!

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Rick:

If you try this yourself, it will suddenly "click into place" for you

All of the information about "the page" is stored by Word in a section
break. To change the orientation of a whole document, or any page or group
of pages in a document, you do exactly the same thing.

If you don't want to change the whole document, then you need to
"encapsulate" the bit that you do want to change in section breaks, so the
rest of the document stays the way it is.

Cheers

Thanks for your reply, though it only has info for changing the
orientation of the entire document and not a single page. Any help is
appreciated!!!!

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Rick;

" it only has info for changing the
orientation of the entire document"

Not so... On that Help page there are 3 subjects:


* Change the page orientation for a document

* Change the orientation for specific pages

* Change the orientation for specific sections

The one you want is the last of the 3.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Rick]

for whatever reason i do not get those options...

Hi Rick;


Not so... On that Help page there are 3 subjects:


* Change the page orientation for a document

* Change the orientation for specific pages

* Change the orientation for specific sections

The one you want is the last of the 3.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[CyberTaz]

I have a feeling you're being duped by Apple's arrogance If you're
clicking Help in Word but using the Search: box that's right there in the
menu you're getting Mac Help, not Word Help. When you open the Help menu
select Word Help from below the search box, then try the Change page
orientation topic in Word's Help window.

Also make sure that Online Help is indicated in the lower left corner of the
Help window.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Rick:

Make sure you are actually looking at the WORD help and not the Apple help.
OS 10.5 and 10.6 have a bad design bug where if you go to The Help menu and
type a search phrase, you go directly to the Apple help, there is no way to
get from there to the Word help.

When you first open the Help menu, the top item should be "Word Help".
Click that, then enter your query in the new help window that opens.

Check that you are allowing your Help system to go "online". Word 2008's
help is mainly on the website: there is very little stored locally on the
computer.

The Help topic you need is this one:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=1df48fb7-1609-457a-b556-58126a
09686b1033&clr=99-4-0&ep=8&rtype=2&pos=1&quid=bf264b70-5e37-4e39-94bd-c0c9d1
9133d2&CTT=Search&MODE=ct&locale=en-US&usid=4887af63-c5ba-4db8-b56d-cf2e87b3
64f5

Hope this helps

for whatever reason i do not get those options...

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Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
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[Jeff Chapman]

Hello Bob,

I have a feeling you're being duped by Apple's arrogance If you're
clicking Help in Word but using the Search: box that's right there in the
menu you're getting Mac Help, not Word Help.

That is really an annoying "feature", isn't it.
In fact, it's shoddy software design.
The reason why is because when an application in
Mac OS X is active, the menu bar options change to
reflect the active application, NOT Finder
preferences. For Apple to assume that the user wants
global Apple help while they are in an application
is confusing their orientation. Am I in an application,
or in Finder?

When I first started using this "feature", I really
wondered if I hadn't done something hideous to mess
up my OS X install. But as it turned out, this was Apple's
decision... and it must be confusing the heck out of
everyone.

Wonder if they'll change it? Wonder what the reasoning was
for adding it?

If I got BOTH Apple topic help and active application help
from that menu, I would be satisfied. But what it actually
gives me is menu item help for the active app, and
general help for Apple applications.

Perhaps it's a case where Apple expects the software
manufacturers to do something in particular that will
allow the active application to populate that help menu?
I have no idea as to what the software development guidelines
are from Apple, but I haven't found a single "Leopard-ready"
application yet where you get help content from the active
application in that Help search box list.

Jeff

 

[Anna]

Hi Rick:
Not sure if you've figured it out yet, but for anyone else who needs help:
- insert page breaks before and after the page you want to change the
orientation for (insert-breaks-page break)
- then go to file-page setup
- a box will appear, with options for settings, orientation etc. at this
point, choose 'microsoft word' from the drop down box for 'settings' (It
probably says 'page attributes' to begin with)
- make sure that in the 'apply page Setup settings to:' box, 'this section'
is selected
- choose page attributes from the 'settings' box at the top again
- select the orientation that you want
and thats it

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Anna;

Did you actually try this before posting it? If you had you'd find that
there are several flaws in this process beginning with the first point about
the insertion of 'Page Breaks'. Page breaks do not enable changes of
orientation within a document & manual page breaks in addition to the
natural page breaks will mess up the document flow. It requires the use of
*Section Breaks*, which are altogether different.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Tim Murray]

Hi Rick:
Not sure if you've figured it out yet, but for anyone else who needs help:
- insert page breaks before and after the page you want to change the
orientation for (insert-breaks-page break)
- then go to file-page setup
- a box will appear, with options for settings, orientation etc. at this
point, choose 'microsoft word' from the drop down box for 'settings' (It
probably says 'page attributes' to begin with)
- make sure that in the 'apply page Setup settings to:' box, 'this section'
is selected
- choose page attributes from the 'settings' box at the top again
- select the orientation that you want
and thats it

One addition: After you insert the section breaks and before you do the page
setup, make sure your I-beam is somewhere within the section that's to be
rotated.