Landscape pages with page number in portrait orientation
Laurent
I have a pretty long document (900+pages) with dozens of OLE figures and
internal tables that are displayed in lanscape mode, while the main
document is portrait. I use page section with different page parameters to
do that. Each figure/table has a legend on top of it in the same landscape
orientation.
My problem is that page numbering is also in the landscape orientation, but
it HAS to be in portrait orientation, like all the other pages.
+-------------------+
| |
| legend |
| 1 [box] |
| |
| |
+-------------------+
(the "1" page number is
90 degrees clockwise on this
drawing)
I can't do trick like printing twice the same sheet on the printer (such as
one time portrait with only page number, and the second time landscape
only with figures and legend) because the document will be sent by
Internet and print far away from home. It has to be printable "final"
without modification.
I also thought of turning all figures 90 degrees counter-clockwise, but I
wont be able to do that with legend. I also have several Word tables that
span on pages that can't be turned counter-clockwise.
To make things more difficult, the whole document will be eventually
resized A4/Letter by Word because it will be sent in Europe.
Any suggestions ?
Laurent
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P.S. I already read
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm
but find nothing new that can really help me
Greg Maxey
Several solutions. Bill, Suzanne, and Dave cover them all pretty well here:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm
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Greg Maxey
I just saw your other post indicating the procedures in the MVP article does
not meet your needs. I have no other ideas.
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Laurent
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> Laurent,
>
> I just saw your other post indicating the procedures in the MVP
> article does not meet your needs. I have no other ideas.
Okay, thanks. I think I met the physical limits of Word. The procedures in
the MVP article are already quite tricky. I could try to mix all these
landscape tweaks together, but my document is already pretty full of cross-
ref, special table and paragraph styles, links (powerpoint, excel, OLE,
JPG, bookmarks, name it), special field codes (I'm using Procite),
sections, footnotes, macros and multilingual/Unicode text. I already fear
it won't print correctly when sent to Europe because the resize A4/letter
feature didn't work well in the past for me with complex documents such as
this one.
My best alternative is probably to use Adobe Acrobat to "touch" a version
of that file in PDF format and just move/edit the page number to its right
position. (Actually, Acrobat PDFMaker can't process the document: it's too
complexe for it, but JawsPDF can. :-) )
Meanwhile, if you got another idea, just tell me :-)
thanks for support
Mike Williams
Have you thought of placing a text box on the page, with a rotated text
field for the page number?
Laurent
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> Have you thought of placing a text box on the page, with a rotated text
> field for the page number?
Cool!
I thought to put all the content of the page in a text box and rotated it,
but it didn't work at all. Figures can't be rotated.
But I didn't think to do the opposite! Now it works okay for most pages.
In an already landscape section:
1. Insert 1rowx2col table , autosize to page width, border invisible
2. Change left page margin to 0,5 and set first col to 0,5 width (= 1 inch)
3. Insert page nb field code in left col, rotate right and align
center/bottom
4. Insert graph or table in right col and resize to take full space. Leave
or create legend inside the cell table, on top of figure (to obtain correct
center alignment)
5. Break header/footer sections on that page and the following one, erase
the footer on that page.
I still have a problem with a huge landscape table that span over dozen of
pages. The trick above works well only for one page landscape. I think I
can live with this limitation.
Thanks a lot for your suggestion !
While you here, I have another question: is there a way to make a figure
takes automatically the maximum space available on a page/table cell but
*without* crossing over page margins? As for now, it seems to be more or
less a trial/error procedure with picture sizing, but I maybe missed
something.
Thanks
Mike Williams
My idea was to use a text-box, rather than a table, and pad field codes with
tabs etc. The text-box position can be set by the usual picture object
methods. The text-box could be placed inside a regular footer but positioned
wherever you want it, like a watermark.
Laurent
Much Better!
Works well, much easier (once one is done, I just have to cut/paste).
Thanks a lot !
Suzanne S. Barnhill
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm, I'm not sure
why you feel that article was not helpful.
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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> Since this is exactly the method described in
> http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/LandscapeSection.htm, I'm not
> sure why you feel that article was not helpful.
You're right. Now that I read it again, it is exactly what the article
describe. Sorry.
I did not feel the article helpful at first because I didn't experiment
much the issue at time of the reading and all this was very abstract. Also
because the article describes four techniques different in nature and that
specific section of the article focus more on steps to follow than on
describing the result of the technique in itself, with its pro/cons. The
article makes sense only if you try and see what the steps actually
perform. Also, not all the steps are described if I compare to what I did
with my own technique. At last, English not being my mother tongue, I maybe
misread the introduction of that section of the article which explains the
pros and cons of another technique. All this together resulted in having me
not understanding at all the advantages and power of this technique, and
led me to reinvent the wheel when I did not have to.
These are NOT critics about the article which is well written, but I did
read it twice before asking for help an did not catch it. So my fault.