Things may have changed, but I haven’t investigated. However, that was a long time ago, and Word 2008. Even that wasn’t ideal, because it’s hard to get the text box exactly where the page number should be. In the end, I think a) set the page number to ‘none’ for the landscape section b) created a text box c) changed the text direction within the text box so that it was the right orientation. The position was correct, but the orientation of the number was as if the page was still portrait. But I having terrible problems with the positioning of page numbers in this scenario, and it proved almost impossible to sort out. In theory, you should surely be able to go into the page number dialog for each section once you’ve got the landscape/portrait thing sorted out, edit to put the page number bottom right of the landscape page or wherever it needs to go. My guess is that when you change the orientation using section breaks, it resets any other changes to whatever the default settings for other parameters (such as page numbers) is. If you have a better way of dealing with this let me know.īe aware that you can’t flip a Word table around like this: it only changes the direction of the text, not the table grid. I’m thinking that the only real workaround if you have a complex table that has to have a grid, and can’t be done with tabs alone, is to export the table as a graphic, and then import the graphic and rotate it into the portrait page as required.
I don’t like the sound of that, but in theory, it could work if you can (ha ha) get your head round it.
I guess if you were really keen, you could create a table with the page in portrait mode, but with columns and rows how you’d like them to be when you type in text at 90 or 270 degrees (i.e. It is then a real pain to put them in the right place using text boxes etc. The text will rotate (rather than the page) – this means that the page numbers will stay in the same position (one of the unfortunate hazards of the other method, is that the page numbers end up relative to the new page orientation – i.e. Select “Text Direction” and choose “Rotate all text 270º (or 90º if you prefer). Click on the + handle on the top LH corner of the resulting text box. Click on the Insert menu, and select “text Box” – this will put a text box around the selected text. Select the “table” (scare quotes are vital here: I mean “tabulated text” not a “table” in the sense of a grid with data in it). If you have tabulated data (rather than a “table”) you can try this: In this particular case, the table had been created with tab stops rather than a table grid, which meant there was a nice workaround. To be honest, I don’t know what the problem is, and I have no idea whether it’s all versions of Word, all tables, all documents or whatever, but be warned. I’ve checked this and looked on a number of forums, and sadly, it seems that this may be an intractable problem with Word and page orientation changes. Once you’ve finished, go back to View>Print layout)Ī recent visitor to this page has pointed out that when she tries to print the resulting document, the page immediately after the landscape page has its margins corrupted, and is shifted 2.5 inches to the right, and bleeds off the page. This will allow you to see where the section breaks are. To avoid deleting section breaks accidentally, put the document temporarily in to outline view ( View>Outline). If this happens, scream and press ‘Undo’ (CTRL+Z or ⌘Z) If you’re not careful, you can backspace over the section break and put your landscape page back into portrait, or vice versa. Even though they’re invisible in print-layout view, Section Breaks can be deleted. If you know that this is going to be the only landscape page in the whole document, you can select ‘from this point forward’ when you change the orientation back to portrait in (6) above.
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