Why are inserted files rotated in OneNote?

[OneNote Nerd]

I am an university student and using OneNote on my hp tablet. Whenever I try
to insert a file into my notebook, it becomes rotated automatically. The
original files however can be read properly without tilting your head 90
degrees.

Is there a way of fixing this. Or rotating them in one shot?

I use to cut each slide into MS Paint and rotate it and then paste it back
into One Note. There are ~100 slides for each lecture, I'm not wasting my
time this semester doing that all over again. :|

 

[John Guin [msft]]

There is a rotator powertoy at
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/12/14/image-rotator-powertoy-for-onenote-2007.aspx which will help with this.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

 

[YouBetcha]

I have had success using the Microsoft Document Imaging for situations like
this, which I think comes with office. You can print any document to MDI, it
is set up as a printer, similar to onenote. Once you have it in MDI, save
the file as a *.MDI and copy it using windows explorer to a page in onenote.

It is an extra step but there are a couple of real advantages to doing it
this way:

1) If you tell MDI to run its OCR routine, it will "auto rotate and
straighten", that is, the individual pages that are sideways will be
automatically rotated (it does a pretty good job but it also makes it easy to
flip one page manually).

2) If you copy an *.MDI file to a OneNote page, the pages come in rotated as
you saved them in the *.MDI file. So if pages 1-3 were portrait text and 4
is a landscape chart, they all come in the way you expect in a single import.

3) By coping the MDI file to OneNote this way, all pages will be scanned by
OneNote's indexer and will be searchable. Using the "rotator powertoy" on a
sideways after you import to OneNote will make the page look right, but the
search indexer will not get an update for the pages you turn upright. So
nothing on the page is then searchable.

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

I am an university student and using OneNote on my hp tablet. Whenever I try
to insert a file into my notebook, it becomes rotated automatically. The
original files however can be read properly without tilting your head 90
degrees.

Is there a way of fixing this. Or rotating them in one shot?

Check your printer settings - is it set to print to portrait or
landscape? If you switch to the other orientation, does that fix it?