At 17:09 02/05/2008 +0800, James Elliott wrote:
In M$ Word, if you have a multi-page document in portrait
orientation, and you want just one page to be in landscape
orientation, perhaps to display a table that is wider than a
portrait page, you can do this by placing your table in a new
'section' and then formatting just that section to be landscape.
I just taught myself how to insert a section into an existing
document, in OOo (ver 2.4 running under Win XP), and I think the OOo
way of doing it and displaying the new section is superior to the M$
Word method ... BUT ... when I made my new section landscape (with
the cursor within the section), the whole document changed to
landscape,which is not what I want.
So, how do you format one page in the middle of a document as
landscape, while keeping the rest of the document in portrait orientation?
You may not need sections. Here's one way to do this:
o Open the Styles and Formatting window.
o Select the Page Styles button and then an appropriate page style -
perhaps Default.
o Click the New Style from Selection button and select New Style
from Selection.
o Give your new, landscape style a name.
o Right-click on the new page style in the list and select Modify... .
o On the Page tab, change Orientation to Landscape (and make any
other desired changes).
o At the end of the material on the page before the one you want in
landscape format, go to Insert | Manual Break... .
o Select Page Break and then - here's the clever bit! - from the
drop-down menu under Style, select your new landscape page style.
o At the end of the required landscape pages, insert another manual
page break, this time setting the page style back to your portrait one.
This is all somewhat simpler than it sounds, in fact.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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