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i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it
opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing
the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you
mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using.
But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Suzanne thank you for your patience.
I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup
dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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thank you Suzanne for your efforts
Your first sentence is puzzling, landscape is not correct, page setup box clearly has the portrait selected, like i mentioned when you select it a black square outline surrounds the letter shape with the " A "in the middle. I've gone this far so can you instruct me on what track changes and white space changes would be? -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Okay, what I was asking was whether you were seeing that Landscape was
selected even though you had attempted to change the orientation to Portrait. If portrait is selected and the page still appears to be landscape, then the other factors could come into play. Track Changes, by default, uses "balloons" in the margin to show deletions and comments. In order to do this, it expands the page (on the right side by default) to create a large margin. But I don't think this is really likely to be the issue because (a) this doesn't happen until you either insert a comment or delete text, and that wouldn't apply in a new document, and (b) the extra margin space is shaded in a different color in Word 2007 so that it is very obvious. The white space issue is described at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm; it seems much more likely to be the problem if in fact the issue is display only. Does the page appear to be landscape in Print Preview? If so, you might also check and make sure that you don't have the height and width reversed on the Paper tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... thank you Suzanne for your efforts Your first sentence is puzzling, landscape is not correct, page setup box clearly has the portrait selected, like i mentioned when you select it a black square outline surrounds the letter shape with the " A "in the middle. I've gone this far so can you instruct me on what track changes and white space changes would be? -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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again may i thank you for your patience.
let me address your comments in their order. Your first paragraph hit the nail on its head, yes, portriat shows to be selected (it is shadowed in golden yellow), when first going to page layout orientation, but screen is one large white mass, trying to highlight landscape (gold) screen remains the same and going back to portrait (highlight gold) screen remains in landscape, so you are correct portrait shows to be selected but screen is in landscape. you mentioned print preview, I opened a new blank doc, of course it opens in landscape, I typed something on it and when I checked print preview it showed to my amazement correctly in portrait!!!! as for height and width in page setup it is 8.5 wide and 11 high -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, what I was asking was whether you were seeing that Landscape was selected even though you had attempted to change the orientation to Portrait. If portrait is selected and the page still appears to be landscape, then the other factors could come into play. Track Changes, by default, uses "balloons" in the margin to show deletions and comments. In order to do this, it expands the page (on the right side by default) to create a large margin. But I don't think this is really likely to be the issue because (a) this doesn't happen until you either insert a comment or delete text, and that wouldn't apply in a new document, and (b) the extra margin space is shaded in a different color in Word 2007 so that it is very obvious. The white space issue is described at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm; it seems much more likely to be the problem if in fact the issue is display only. Does the page appear to be landscape in Print Preview? If so, you might also check and make sure that you don't have the height and width reversed on the Paper tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... thank you Suzanne for your efforts Your first sentence is puzzling, landscape is not correct, page setup box clearly has the portrait selected, like i mentioned when you select it a black square outline surrounds the letter shape with the " A "in the middle. I've gone this far so can you instruct me on what track changes and white space changes would be? -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Did you read the article at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm? I suspect this may be the issue. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... again may i thank you for your patience. let me address your comments in their order. Your first paragraph hit the nail on its head, yes, portriat shows to be selected (it is shadowed in golden yellow), when first going to page layout orientation, but screen is one large white mass, trying to highlight landscape (gold) screen remains the same and going back to portrait (highlight gold) screen remains in landscape, so you are correct portrait shows to be selected but screen is in landscape. you mentioned print preview, I opened a new blank doc, of course it opens in landscape, I typed something on it and when I checked print preview it showed to my amazement correctly in portrait!!!! as for height and width in page setup it is 8.5 wide and 11 high -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, what I was asking was whether you were seeing that Landscape was selected even though you had attempted to change the orientation to Portrait. If portrait is selected and the page still appears to be landscape, then the other factors could come into play. Track Changes, by default, uses "balloons" in the margin to show deletions and comments. In order to do this, it expands the page (on the right side by default) to create a large margin. But I don't think this is really likely to be the issue because (a) this doesn't happen until you either insert a comment or delete text, and that wouldn't apply in a new document, and (b) the extra margin space is shaded in a different color in Word 2007 so that it is very obvious. The white space issue is described at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm; it seems much more likely to be the problem if in fact the issue is display only. Does the page appear to be landscape in Print Preview? If so, you might also check and make sure that you don't have the height and width reversed on the Paper tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... thank you Suzanne for your efforts Your first sentence is puzzling, landscape is not correct, page setup box clearly has the portrait selected, like i mentioned when you select it a black square outline surrounds the letter shape with the " A "in the middle. I've gone this far so can you instruct me on what track changes and white space changes would be? -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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Dear Suzanne
I did look into your suggestion of changing and checking white spaces and also did a change of the normal.dot. I got a very explicit set of steps from a Sukhdeep at microsoft techinical help center with the normal .dot and can now proclaim that doing both of the recommendations, that the problem has been fully solved. Again thank you very very much with your patience in this matter. Thank you again. -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you read the article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm? I suspect this may be the issue. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... again may i thank you for your patience. let me address your comments in their order. Your first paragraph hit the nail on its head, yes, portriat shows to be selected (it is shadowed in golden yellow), when first going to page layout orientation, but screen is one large white mass, trying to highlight landscape (gold) screen remains the same and going back to portrait (highlight gold) screen remains in landscape, so you are correct portrait shows to be selected but screen is in landscape. you mentioned print preview, I opened a new blank doc, of course it opens in landscape, I typed something on it and when I checked print preview it showed to my amazement correctly in portrait!!!! as for height and width in page setup it is 8.5 wide and 11 high -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, what I was asking was whether you were seeing that Landscape was selected even though you had attempted to change the orientation to Portrait. If portrait is selected and the page still appears to be landscape, then the other factors could come into play. Track Changes, by default, uses "balloons" in the margin to show deletions and comments. In order to do this, it expands the page (on the right side by default) to create a large margin. But I don't think this is really likely to be the issue because (a) this doesn't happen until you either insert a comment or delete text, and that wouldn't apply in a new document, and (b) the extra margin space is shaded in a different color in Word 2007 so that it is very obvious. The white space issue is described at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm; it seems much more likely to be the problem if in fact the issue is display only. Does the page appear to be landscape in Print Preview? If so, you might also check and make sure that you don't have the height and width reversed on the Paper tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... thank you Suzanne for your efforts Your first sentence is puzzling, landscape is not correct, page setup box clearly has the portrait selected, like i mentioned when you select it a black square outline surrounds the letter shape with the " A "in the middle. I've gone this far so can you instruct me on what track changes and white space changes would be? -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You're definitely seeing that Landscape is selected in the Page Setup dialog? I ask because I am wondering if you are going by the shape of the page, which may be wider if Track Changes is enabled or if white space is hidden (neither of these is true by default, but they might somehow have gotten changed). Failing all else, I'd suggest looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm. Despite the URL, the article lists troubleshooting techniques for all kinds of problems in Word, and I would suspect that either renaming Normal.dot or deleting the Data key might help (possibly even reinstalling the printer driver). Note that uninstalling/reinstalling will *not* help (it doesn't affect any of the four major problem areas), so don't waste time on that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... Suzanne thank you for your patience. I have done both remedys, first was to check my printer properties ,both with ctrl-p thru word and from start menu etc. etc. , it has the default at portrait and it always was this way. I clicked the page dialog launcher: A page setup box appearsmargins taborientationclicked portrait(a black square surronds the " A " multiple pages is set at normal apply to whole doc clicked default A micro office word box appears: Do you want change the default settings for page setup? This change will affect all new documents based on the normal template. I answered yes But I still cannot create a doc in portrait it always open in landscape and as i mentioned before it cannot be changed with page layout orientationit will not switch back and forth between portrait and landscape. I am perplexed! Oh yes you are correct it is word 2007! Just before I was going to send this to you I had an idea (I tried this), any doc that i have created and stored before this problem occurred allows me to switch between portrait and landscape, but from this point forward I cannot create in portrait nor can I switch from landscape to portrait -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your description doesn't make it entirely clear what version you are using. But are you saying that changing the orientation doesn't work even for the current document? If so, then I don't know what the problem is. But if you can change it for the current document, but the change doesn't affect new documents, then you need to change the default. I'm going to guess you have Word 2007 and that you're using Page Layout | Page Setup | Orientation | Portrait. Instead click the dialog launcher (little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group) to open the Page Setup dialog. Select Portrait orientation there and then click the Default... button in the lower left corner and answer yes when you are asked if you want this change to apply to all new documents. But note that Portrait is the factory-default orientation for Word, so it may well be that your printer Properties have the default set to Landscape. To access that, use Start | Settings | Printers | your printer | Properties or open the Print dialog in Word (Ctrl+P) and click Properties. The latter *may* not provide access to all properties or change them perrmanently for the default printer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... please bear with me i am a new user, where is this default button you mentioned, when i go to officenewblank doccreateit opens in landscape, i try page taborientationportrait and it does not change -- frank mede "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you clicking the Default... button and saving the change after changing the orientation? Have you checked the printer Properties to make sure that landscape orientation isn't selected there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "fmedeiros" wrote in message ... i am using microsoft office word 2007, when i open to create a new doc it opens in landscape format, i have gone to page tab orientationportrait and it will not change back it remains in landscape, how do i fix this -- frank medeiros |
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