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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
Can I rotate the display orientation in Word by 90 degrees so that a long
page can be displayed for reading ease? |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
That will be a function of your monitor and its display driver, if it's
available at all. Word neither knows nor cares about the monitor's orientation. In the Windows Control Panel, open the Display icon and go to the Settings tab. Click the Advanced button. Look through the tabs in that dialog for anything related to rotation or orientation. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Austin W. Fergusson wrote: Can I rotate the display orientation in Word by 90 degrees so that a long page can be displayed for reading ease? |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
I suppose this answer is technically correct, but it illustrates a limitation
with the Word software. Adobe acrobat reader, and Frame Maker, as well as other applications allow you to rotate the displayed page without relying on monitor functionality. Not all monitors support rotation, and document writers often rotate landscape images to portrait so it meshes with the rest of the document. This is functionality that word SHOULD have, but is lacking. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
I'm not seeing any of the previous messages in this thread, but I gather you
want to *see* a landscape page rotated to portrait orientation? Why? You can certainly rotate the page for printing, but even Print Preview will display a page that is readable, so you don't have to turn your head sideways to look at it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "jrr" wrote in message ... I suppose this answer is technically correct, but it illustrates a limitation with the Word software. Adobe acrobat reader, and Frame Maker, as well as other applications allow you to rotate the displayed page without relying on monitor functionality. Not all monitors support rotation, and document writers often rotate landscape images to portrait so it meshes with the rest of the document. This is functionality that word SHOULD have, but is lacking. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
We have technical documents with board layouts. These are Vizio images, not
Word images that are landscape images. These images have been placed into the word document. These image have been rotated 90 degrees from landscape mode to portrait mode to fit on the portrait page in the word doc. Why this is done? I don't know. The rest of the document is fine, its just these few images that are embedded in the document. So I want to have word rotate the page display from portrait to landscape, so I can view the image on the word page in its normal format. The options I have are to print the page and then rotate it for viewing -- which wastes paper, and requires hard copy. Or convert it to a PDF and then use acrobat reader to rotate the page for reading. Which is an annoying waste of time when this is something that Word should support -- given that competing applications support it. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
You could request this feature to be considered in future versions. But the
simple reason why you cannot do that in Word is because Word is a wysiwyg word processor and if the page is in portrait, it displays it in that orientation regardless of contents. A simple answer would be to use the free Office PDF add-in to save the document as a PDF and use Acrobat Reader to view the document. I have to admit that I used to criticise Acrobat Reader for being so large and unwieldy, but in its latest versions, it has really great print functions that are far better than Word has. I frequently save an A4 document to PDF and use AR to print it as an A5 booklet. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "jrr" wrote in message ... We have technical documents with board layouts. These are Vizio images, not Word images that are landscape images. These images have been placed into the word document. These image have been rotated 90 degrees from landscape mode to portrait mode to fit on the portrait page in the word doc. Why this is done? I don't know. The rest of the document is fine, its just these few images that are embedded in the document. So I want to have word rotate the page display from portrait to landscape, so I can view the image on the word page in its normal format. The options I have are to print the page and then rotate it for viewing -- which wastes paper, and requires hard copy. Or convert it to a PDF and then use acrobat reader to rotate the page for reading. Which is an annoying waste of time when this is something that Word should support -- given that competing applications support it. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
Hi Terry,
Being a WYSWIG word processors does not impose a limitation like this. Or at least it shouldn't I say this based on the premise that FrameMaker is also a WYSWIG word processor and FM has this ability. We are currently using the PDF solution, but that is a hassle, and we have found other problems with the word-PDF conversions. Things don't always convert correctly -- at least unless we are using the official acrobat acrobate professional tool -- but then that causes more licensing costs for our users. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
FM does not need a printer (driver) in order to layout a document. FM is a
true page layout publishing application: Word is just a word processor that relies on interrogating the printer driver to ensure that it lays out the page as it will be printed. So although I understand your argument, it isn't true of Word. Word just cannot do what the printer driver won't let it do which is often a problem. Terry "jrr" wrote in message ... Hi Terry, Being a WYSWIG word processors does not impose a limitation like this. Or at least it shouldn't I say this based on the premise that FrameMaker is also a WYSWIG word processor and FM has this ability. We are currently using the PDF solution, but that is a hassle, and we have found other problems with the word-PDF conversions. Things don't always convert correctly -- at least unless we are using the official acrobat acrobate professional tool -- but then that causes more licensing costs for our users. |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
Nuts!
I think I understand your answer. I don't LIKE it, but I think understand it. But then I ask, why would converting to PDF work? Is it because the PDF version is a page layout? |
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Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?
The main attributes of PDF is that is totally independent of the printer and
looks the same regardless of which computer you use to view it or which printer you use to print it. PDF And Adobe have exploited the printing options in AR exceptionally well. I find myself frequently switching to PDF and AR to print what Word cannot. Terry "jrr" wrote in message ... Nuts! I think I understand your answer. I don't LIKE it, but I think understand it. But then I ask, why would converting to PDF work? Is it because the PDF version is a page layout? |
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