Orientation refers to whether the page is laid out horizontally (landscape) or vertically (portrait—the default orientation). You might sometimes need to rotate a page to landscape in order to fit a particular picture, chart, table, or other object. It should be emphasized, however, that changing a page to landscape orientation carries with it a number of consequences that might be considerably worse and harder to deal with than trying to find a way to rotate the object itself.

Consider page numbers and other header and footer content. If the whole page is changed to landscape, then the header and footer now rotate as well. To have the headers and footers located in the correct position relative to portrait-oriented pages takes a bit of strategizing. The usual approach is to set up different headers and footers for the solitary landscape page. To get the orientation correct, you might consider putting the header and footer material either into a text box or a single-cell borderless table, in which the text has been rotated 90 degrees.

Alternatively, you can keep the orientation as portrait, and rotate the table, chart, or picture instead. For pictures and charts, rotation isn’t challenging. With Wrapping (Picture Tools Format tab, in the Arrange group) set to anything other than In line with Text, simply rotate the pictures or chart 90 degrees by dragging the green rotation handle at the top of the selected object.

Tables are a bit more challenging, but you have several possibilities. If you’re just now creating the table, select the entire table and in the Table Tools Layout tab, Alignment group, click Text Direction to rotate the text so that it can be read by tilting your head to the right or left. Keep in mind that columns and rows are reversed.

It’s not necessarily easy to work this way, but it can be done, as shown in Figure 8-8. Notice that the header and footer are properly oriented to conform with the rest of the [unseen] document.

Another option would be to copy the table to the Clipboard, choose Paste?Paste Special on the Home tab, and paste the table into the document as a picture. Because it’s now a picture, you can choose any floating wrapping style and then rotate it as needed so that it fits comfortably, but sideways, in a portrait-oriented Word document page. As above, headers and footers will display in portrait mode because you haven’t changed the paper orientation.

The downside is that sometimes the graphics resolution of this technique isn’t perfect. You’ll have to decide if it’s acceptable and legible. Plus, to make changes in the table, you need to maintain a copy of the actual table and remake the “conversion” as needed.

Another negative is that once you’ve done this to a table, you won’t be able to edit it anymore. If you decide to go this route, you might consider saving the nongraphic version of the table as a Building Block in the current template. If you need to modify it, it would still be accessible.

A variation of this approach, if the table fits into a window from which you can copy it, is to use screen capture software to take a picture of the table. This often yields more predictable and better-quality graphics, but it suffers from the same maintenance issues as the previous approach, and achieving it depends on having a sufficiently large monitor. To make a screen capture of a table under Windows XP, you’ll get the best results using an amenable screen capture program(such as SnagIt, from www.TechSmith.com, which is
highly flexible). Under Vista, you can use the new Snipping Tool feature (Start?All Programs? Accessories?Snipping Tool.

Size
Size refers to paper size. A number of preset standard sizes are available by clicking the Size drop-down arrow in the Page Setup group of the Page Layout tab, shown in Figure 8-9. Clicking More Paper Sizes displays the Paper tab in the Page Setup dialog box. While it says “More Paper Sizes,” that’s not actually what you get. The “more” refers to the Custom Size setting at the bottom of the Paper Size list, which enables you to set any size up to 22 inches. This assumes that your printer supports something that large.

Columns
Use the Columns tool in the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab of the Ribbon to set the number of columns either in the current section or in all sections in the current selection if text is selected.

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