Landscape Page Orientation

[John Galt]

Have both landscape and portrait orientation in
document. When printing, the landscape pages have the
footer on the left side of the page. How do I get the
footer to print on the RIGHT side of the page?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's not so much a question of which side the footer is on (the footer is
always at the *bottom* of the page) as which side the foot or bottom of the
page is on, and this depends on your printer. If you can't get your printer
to turn landscape pages the right way, you'll do well to avoid duplexing
landscape on the back of portrait. If you're printing single-sided, you'll
have to resign yourself to rotating the landscape pages after they're
printed.

 

[PK]

Suzanne

I had the same problem as John and I'm disappointed with no obvious method within Word to turn this around

I'm printing a lengthy document from Word to both PDF and hardcopy and this will cause me some trouble to fix even for single sided printing. I wish even turning around the page in the hardcopy would be a good solution but when you're printing a document of 60+ pages with 10+ landscape graphics more that 20 times for a training class then this is really not an option

People with a background in technical design or publishing (or even if the read books) will know that a landscape diagram TOP is always to the left of the page and never to the right. In understand that there might be an issue with double-sided printing but even on single-sided the page is obviously upside down

Microsoft should be aware of this and I sincerely hope they are considering a patch for this defect or at least provision of a workaround to 'flip' the page

Regards
P

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The problem is that this is not a Word issue at all. It's a printer driver
issue. You need to take it up with the printer manufacturer or investigate
whether there is a setting in the printer Properties that governs this.
FWIW, there are some settings on the Print tab of recent versions of Word
that deal with orientation of duplexed pages. Since it's not at all clear
what they do, you would have to experiment to find out.

Suzanne,

I had the same problem as John and I'm disappointed with no obvious method

within Word to turn this around.

I'm printing a lengthy document from Word to both PDF and hardcopy and

this will cause me some trouble to fix even for single sided printing. I
wish even turning around the page in the hardcopy would be a good solution
but when you're printing a document of 60+ pages with 10+ landscape graphics
more that 20 times for a training class then this is really not an option.

People with a background in technical design or publishing (or even if the

read books) will know that a landscape diagram TOP is always to the left of
the page and never to the right. In understand that there might be an issue
with double-sided printing but even on single-sided the page is obviously
upside down.

Microsoft should be aware of this and I sincerely hope they are

considering a patch for this defect or at least provision of a workaround to
'flip' the page.

 

[Deb]

Very well said, PK. I have been similarly frustrated and couldn't agree more that provisions/revisions are needed
- Deb

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Then address the problem to your printer manufacturer.

Very well said, PK. I have been similarly frustrated and couldn't agree

more that provisions/revisions are needed.