Header Footer on Landscape Pages

[doneirik]

Dear Group,

I need to insert a landscape page into a otherwise portrait page document. Is there any way I can have the header/footer appear vertically on the edges on the document for landscape pages, so that when printed out, the header/footer appear at the top/bottom of the page?

Question 2: I am working on a document where I have specified "different header/footer for front page. When I mark a page inside the document and change the layout in page setup to "Landscape", the landscape page gets the "front page" header. (and not the header for subsequent pages)
Where is this specified?

best regards
d.

 

[Madawc]

For Q1, I don't think this is possible. You might fake it with columns.

For Q2, to change layout in part of a document needs a section break. You need to change other features of the seciond. Ttry File > Page Setup > Layout. You must have 'different first page' checked. Turn it off for the landscape section - not the whole document, you should have a choice. This is based on Word 2002.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[xlhelp]

For your Q1.... Look at More Complex Letterhead section in:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm

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Only here temporarily during job transition....again....but better this time.

 

[tf1]

Also be warned that most printers will not print protrait and landsacpe on the same sheet of paper: so if you are going to duplex print, you need to switch to Landscape for an odd and even page together (that is pages 1 and 2 or pages 19 and 20 but not pages 2 and 3 or 20 and 21).


Regards: tf1

 

[doneirik]

Thank you all

Q2 is solved, Q1 still pending.

regards
d.

 

[combo]

If you have fixed contents of the page, try to rotate text instead. This can me done in 1 x 1 table or shape.

combo

 

[fumei]

I am not understanding the problem with Q1.

A header on a landscape page will be at the top, just like any other page. You do not need to rotate it.

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Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[tf1]

Gerry

Many users like to have the H&F consistent with throughout the document even though the page contents (say a table or graphic) is rotated into Landscape.

Doneirik

See

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/LandscapeSection.htm

for a solution.


Regards: tf1

 

[fumei]

Many users like to have the H&F consistent "

Huh? Is not have it always at the top of the page consistent? Always means consistent to me.

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Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[mintjulep]

For Q1:

You can fake it by inserting text boxes in the header or footer. Use Format | Text direction to get the text the direction you want, and move the text box where you want.

 

[tf1]

Gerry, maybe I'm misunderstanding?

Normally, if you insert section breaks and create a landscape page in the middle of a portrait document, Word will make the H&Fs landscape in that section too. So the H&Fs are no longer in portrait orientation throughout.

Doneirik wants to make portrait H&Fs on the Landscape pages so that the H&Fs will be aligned throughout the document. That's my understanding of Q1.


Regards: tf1

 

[fumei]

Maybe I am not understanding (more than likely).

What does "the H&Fs will be aligned throughout the document." actually mean????

"Normally, if you insert section breaks and create a landscape page in the middle of a portrait document, Word will make the H&Fs landscape in that section too. So the H&Fs are no longer in portrait orientation throughout."

Yes...that is very true, and as far as I understand, exactly what is being asked for.

However, perhaps it is this phrase "portrait orientation" that is the problem in my understanding.

Orientation.... to what?

If it is to the page as it will print out (OR viewed in Print View), then the H&F on portrait and landscape will default to being exactly the same....at the top of the page.

Technically speaking, headers and footers do not HAVE a "portrait orientation". By default, H & F are...at the top/bottom of the page regardless of the orientation of the page.

Just like I stated. If portrait...headers are at the top; if landscape.....headers are at the top. The page orientation does not affect where Word places the header. By default, it places it at the top of the page.

I must be missing something here.

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Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[tf1]

My interpretation is that Doneirik wants the H&Fs to be at the top/bottom NARROW edges of the page throughout the document so that when you 'flick' through the document, the H&Fs are fully aligned.

Even if there is a page set in landscape in the middle, he still wants the H&Fs to be along the narrow edges of the page as though it were still in protrait.

So it is neceesary to rotate the H&Fs on the Landscape page(s) to align with the remainder of the document



Regards: tf1

 

[doneirik]

Thanks,
especially to Gerry and tf1...

tf1: Looks like you have understood what I was searching for...I realize my explanation was not that good from the beginning...

I still did not find an optimal solution. I do not want to start messing with text boxes and tables if there is a more straightforward way to do it.

Again, thanks for all input.

regards
doneirik