Re: Can't print landscape

I've never had that problem.
I suspect either your Office needs a service pack installed, or
printer drivers need updating. WordXP (2002) is at
Since that link is so old (2002), I would suggest you check into
downloading and installing the latest updates for OfficeXP and/or
WordXP. Besides, if you notice, that's a LAN issue and you
didn't mention using LAN, I don't think.

My Word Help|About is showing SP3 and there have been hot
fixes since then; as recently as a couple of weeks ago if I
recall correctly.

Might we worth checking into.

HTH,

Pop


SF wrote:
Okay, I did a search on Google Groups for Landscape and
Print and after a bit of digging, found out that there is a
known bug that causes problems with Word 2000 and Windows
XP printing landscape orientation, particularly with the HP
Laserjet series of printers. (See link below)
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.printing/browse_thread/thread/db57f139e6be5010/f93ebef96ec766bc?lnk=st&q=Print+landscape&rnum=4&hl=en#f93ebef96ec766bc

I tried setting the landscape option in the printer
properties, but that didn't help with regular documents,
but it did allow a rather unusual workaround.

I tried printing a calendar off the web as a landscape and
it worked! So I played with it and found that if I save my
document page as an "htm" file, then I can print it as a
landscape. But (on my system, at least) it won't work on the
document
I immediately saved as an htm document (even thought that
document now seems to have changed to a web page). I had to
close that particular document, then go open the htm
document I just saved, and then it worked! I hope that
description is clear. There may be someone else out there
with the same problem hoping for some kind of a workaround.





"POP" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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SF wrote:
I have checked the radio dial on
Print Properties / Basics / Landscape

But the paper keeps printing in portrait orientation.
What am I doing wrong?

Windows XP
Word 2000

Is your printer capable of printing in landscape mode?



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