Re: Can I rotate the display orientation in Word?

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You could request this feature to be considered in future versions. But the simple reason why you cannot do that in Word is because Word is a wysiwyg word processor and if the page is in portrait, it displays it in that orientation regardless of contents.

A simple answer would be to use the free Office PDF add-in to save the document as a PDF and use Acrobat Reader to view the document. I have to admit that I used to criticise Acrobat Reader for being so large and unwieldy, but in its latest versions, it has really great print functions that are far better than Word has. I frequently save an A4 document to PDF and use AR to print it as an A5 booklet.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"jrr" <jrr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ADF70E74-9937-4A05-9C20-CAEF0BC11F5F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have technical documents with board layouts. These are Vizio images, not
Word images that are landscape images.

These images have been placed into the word document.

These image have been rotated 90 degrees from landscape mode to portrait
mode to fit on the portrait page in the word doc. Why this is done? I don't
know. The rest of the document is fine, its just these few images that are
embedded in the document.

So I want to have word rotate the page display from portrait to landscape,
so I can view the image on the word page in its normal format.

The options I have are to print the page and then rotate it for viewing -- which wastes paper, and requires hard copy. Or convert it to a PDF and then
use acrobat reader to rotate the page for reading. Which is an annoying waste
of time when this is something that Word should support -- given that
competing applications support it.

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