At 18:28 24/08/2011 -0400, Helen Etters wrote:
I guess this question is too simple to be taken seriously ...
Not necessarily.
How can I divide a page (8.5x11 sheet) in half horizontally,
landscape mode. I mean, and get it exactly right.
The simplest way would be with a pair of scissors - or by
folding. If that's not what you need, then you do need to say
exactly what you want to do with the two halves. Here are a couple
of suggestions:
o Go to Format | Page... | Page, observe the Height and Top and
Bottom Margins, and calculate the height of the resulting text area.
o Go to Table | Insert > | Table... .
o Change Columns to 1, optionally remove the tick from Border, and click OK.
o With the cursor in the table, go to Table | Select > | Table to
select both cells.
o Go to Table | Autofit > | Row Height..., remove the tick from "Fit
to size", and enter a value for Height of half the the text area
height you calculated above. (You may have to choose a value very
slightly less than this to allow both rows to stay on the page.)
(There ought to be a way to choose the table height and then get the
two rows automatically to take half each, but I don't see
one. "Space Equally" and "Distribute Rows Equally" change the table
size, which is not what we want here.)
o Go to View | Toolbars > | Drawing, to display the Drawing toolbar.
o Click on the Line symbol in the Drawing toolbar: the cursor
becomes cross-hairs.
o Click at the left edge of the page and drag a line across the page
to the opposite edge. Take care to hold down the Shift key as you
release the mouse button: this will ensure the line is exactly horizontal.
o With the line you have created still selected (so it shows the two
green handles), go to Format | Object > | Position and Size... |
Position and Size.
o Under Position, for Vertical select Center and for "to" select
"Entire page" or "Page text area".
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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