Creating Landscape and Portrait Documents?

[Irish2dabone]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Must be slipping or slacking-off, but since I purchased the new OFFICE 2008 s/w, I haven't required the need of creating, or pasting work/info in LANDSCAPE mode. When I have sought the means of creating a Landscape doc, I gave up because I didn't have the cycles to hunt for it.

Is it "just me", or has OFFICE 2008 eliminated the ease of creating a PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE document? Seems to me that we were able to do this in the previous edition by going to File> Page Setup... and with 2008, its, Format> Document> Page setup and then selecting one of three doc pix with a stick figure standing upright, or the other two with the stick figure in a vertical position facing in opposite positions? IF that is the case, I am perplexed as to why it was made so complicated a process? Please tell me I am missing something here. Thx

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Word 2008 still has File |Page Setup, no change there. You should wind
up in the same place whether you go File | Page Setup or Format |
Document | Page Setup.

Are you having problems making it work or just complaining about the
extra step?

 

[CyberTaz]

As is Daiya, I'm totally unclear on what you're actually asking or think
you're missing. Both File> Page Setup and Format> Document> Page Setup are
in the exact same location & work exactly the same way in 2008 as in 2004.

I'm just guessing, but is it possible that you may have also started using a
different version of OS X (perhaps a new printer as well)? Or that you're
remembering back to 2001/Classic OS - or maybe even a PC version? Word
simply calls the dialog - it's provided by the OS & supplied with content by
the printer driver. The earlier style of presenting only two rectangular
icons labeled Portrait & Landscape - still used on the PC - were replaced in
OS X quite some time ago. I can't remember exactly when, but Tiger has
presented the orientation options this way as far back as I can remember.

Either of the two Landscape icons will provide the orientation, but you have
the alternative of selecting which direction you want the content to face...
Particularly useful for duplex print jobs as well as individual pages that
need to have room for binding on one side or the other. Bottom line for most
"just plain landscape" needs, though, is that it doesn't matter which of the
2 is used - the result is the same either way. Like I say, however, this is
nothing new in 2008 [compared to 2004].

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac