On 2 May 2008 at 17:09, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers 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?
I thought I knew the answer, but there seems to be a problem when I try it. I /think/ the "correct" way is to define a new page style (F11 - stylist) with landscape format, and apply that to the wanted page(s). However, when I try this, I can only ever get the first page to rotate. This is with 2.4/XP: Create a document with 3 pages, with a couple of lines on each page followed by a page break. Go to the middle of the second page. In stylist, create a new style 'landscape' (with landscape format, and optionally add a header just for fun), then, still with cursor on second page (or on the 3rd page for that matter), double-click the new style. I find that /either/ nothing happens, /or/ page 1 rotates. Depends whether there's any text selected on the target page. Do I misunderstand something, or is this a bug? -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
