How to Make a Paper Horizontal on Open Office
For visual appeal reasons, you may prefer for your document to have horizontal orientation. The standard orientation of documents is vertical. The vertical document setting is portrait orientation. The horizontal document setting is landscape orientation. The preferred method for changing a document’s orientation is in the page style settings. Where page style settings are unavailable, you can still change the orientation of the printed document using printer properties.
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Instructions
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Page Style Settings
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Open the Open Office Document you want to be horizontal. Click “Format” in the top menu and select “Page” to open the Page Style dialog box. This option is available in OpenOffice.org Text Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Drawing
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Click the “Page” tab in the Page Style dialog box. Click the “Landscape” radio button on the left side of the Page tab next to Orientation in the Paper format section of the “Page” tab.
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Click the “OK” button in the Page Style dialog box when you are done to apply the settings and close the “Page Style” dialog box.
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Click “File” in the top menu. Then click “Print” to open the Print dialog box. Click the “Print” button to print the document horizontally on the page (in landscape orientation).
Printer Properties
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Open the Open Office Document. Click “File,” then “Printer Settings.” This option is available in all OpenOffice.org suite programs. It is available in reports in the Database program.
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Click the “Properties” button, which will open the properties dialog box for your printer.
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Click the “Landscape” radio button in the Orientation section of the Properties dialog box. Click the “OK” button when you are done to close the Properties dialog box and apply the settings.
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Click “File” in the top menu. Then click “Print” to open the Print dialog box. Click the “Print” button to print the document horizontally on the page (in landscape orientation).
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Tips & Warnings
Before using landscape orientation, ask yourself if it will improve the understanding of your document. If not, stick with portrait view.
Printer properties will look different depending on your printer but almost all printer properties will label page direction orientation.
Be careful when using landscape orientation for specific pages in a document that is primarily in portrait view. You do not want to inconvenience the readers by forcing them to keep turning the document around.
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