DOSWord: Printing Portrait and Landscape in Same Document

ID: Q42920

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for MS-DOS, versions 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

SUMMARY

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Autorotation is the ability of some printers to rotate a portrait font 90 degrees to create a landscape font. This feature allows you to have portrait text and landscape text in the same document, but on different pages. Each division (Word version 5.0)/section (Word versions 5.5, 6.0) in a document can have only one orientation. Although a page can have more than one division/section, you cannot print in both portrait and landscape text on the same page because of the method Word uses to perform autorotation.

MORE INFORMATION

Word version 5.0 determines the orientation of a page by the values set in the "page length:" and "width:" fields of the the Format Division Margins command.

Word version 5.5, 6.0 determine the orientation of a page by the values set in the Height and Width boxes of the Format Margins command.

If the "page length:" (Height box in Word versions 5.5, 6.0) field is set to less than 9 inches and the "width:" (Width box in Word versions 5.5 and 6.0) field is set to greater than or equal to 9 inches, Word will send the page to the printer as landscape. Otherwise, Word will assume the page has portrait orientation.

Word supports autorotation on the following printers:


   Mannesmann Tally 910
   Panasonic KX-P4450
   Canon IIR
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 2000
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series IID, IIP
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIID
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIP
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIsi
   Hewlett-Packard LaserJet series 4
   IBM 4019 (native mode)
   All PostScript printers

Additional query words: 5.00 5.50 2d 2p 2r

Keywords : kbprint
Version : MS-DOS:5.0,5.5,6.0
Platform : MS-DOS
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