mike scott wrote:
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?
Hi
I knew this was an old one, and there was a mail in the archives from GR
Singleton August 2006 - of course pointing to the User Guide.
It is on page 157 (175 of the pdf.) in my copy anyway.
Regards
Russell
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