[PJ's mama]

I'm trying to make math flash cards for my son. How do I change the settings
so Word recognizes I want a vertical card, not a horizontal card? I have
Avery 27871 business cards (2x3.5 in; 10/pg).

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could rotate the text in the table cells, but I don't think you really
want to have to look at everything sideways. Better to create a new label
definition (or just a table on a landscape page) for the rotated cards.

To set up the table on a landscape page:

1. In a new document, go to the Margins tab of Page Setup and choose
Landscape.

2. Set the top margin to 0.75" and the rest to 0.5". If Word tells you this
is outside the printable area, ignore it since you aren't actually going to
print all the way to the bottom, anyway.

3. In the document, insert a table with two rows and five columns.

4. In the Table Properties, make the following settings:

a. On the Table tab, click on Options and disable auto resizing.

b. On the Row tab, set the row height to Exactly 3.5".

c. On the Column tab, set the preferred width to 2".

5. If your inserted table has borders, press Ctrl+Alt+U to remove them. Make
sure you have table gridlines displayed, however (Table | Show Gridlines),
so you can see the card boundaries.

There will be an empty text paragraph below the table; it has to be there,
and it's the reason you set the bottom margin to 0.5" even though the table
ends 0.75" from the bottom.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"PJ's mama" PJ's wrote in message
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I'm trying to make math flash cards for my son. How do I change the
settings
so Word recognizes I want a vertical card, not a horizontal card? I have
Avery 27871 business cards (2x3.5 in; 10/pg).