Issue 17975 - Assigning different page orientations to pages within the same doc
Summary: Assigning different page orientations to pages within the same doc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 7984
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-08-07 19:34 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2006-05-31 21:42 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: FEATURE
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Description Unknown 2003-08-07 19:34:19 UTC 
When creating a document that contains a lot of tables, it is impossible to
change the page orientation of a single page so you can display a table
perpendicular to the orientation of all the other pages.  It is also impossible
to rotate the table so it is oriented "landscape"-wise.  This is the case in M$
Word and as far as I can tell it is the case in OOo as well.  

I'm just a user, but I can assure you that being able to either rotate a table
so it is "landscape" oriented, or being able to change a single page in a
document to "landscape" orientation while all the others remain "portait" would
be a very, very cool feature. 

BTW, the only work-around now is to turn the table (or, more often, the
spreadsheet) you want to rotate into an image, and then rotate that.  Needless
to say, this rapidly ramps up the size of your document file.
Comment 1 rblackeagle 2003-08-07 20:38:11 UTC 
This is done with page styles.  Open the Stylist (with F11 if you can,
otherwise with Format > Stylist) and click on the "Paragraph" icon if
paragraph styles do not appear.  I suspect you are using "Default",
but whatever style you're using, right click on it and select "New"
and give it a name (maybe something like "Default_Landscape") and
change the orientation to "Landscape."  Have the "Next style" (under
the "Organizer" tab) the previous file unless you want several
identical tables.

Now, when you get to that place where the next page is to be a
landscaped table, make it "Manual Break > Page, choose the page style
and leave the pagination at "0" -- meaning, don't do anything.  You
have your landscaped page. Now you should be able to insert your table
and it print right.

However, I don't know how to do this and keep text moving around it
(you might define a full-page size text frame anchored to the page to
do it and insert the table in that frame).

See if this works.
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2003-09-08 17:30:57 UTC 
SBA: Reassigned to Bettina from the User Experience team for consideration.
Comment 3 stp 2006-05-31 21:42:00 UTC 
dupe

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 7984 ***
Comment 4 stp 2006-05-31 21:42:15 UTC 
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