Microsoft Word 2007

[Scarface30]

Okay, so I've been looking and looking for how to insert page numbers on a landscape oriented page, but have them so they are readable when looking at them portrait oriented. I've found nothing.

Just wondering if anyone here knows how to insert page numbers on landscape so they are right way up on portrait?

 

[SYN]

Why would you even need to do that?

You could just do it in landsape mode and then make images of your numbers in paint or some othe photo program and then just insert them onto the pages.

 

[busyLivin]

Insert -> Header (Delete the default text)

Insert-> Text Box, Simple Textbox

Drag the text box to the location on the page you want

Delete the default text inside the textbox. With the cursor in the text box, go to insert-> Page Number -> Current Position -> Plain Number

Select the textbox & remove the border if you want to. Select the text box again & in the Format tab, hit the "Text Direction" button (on the far left) until it is in the direction you want.

(You must be in header edit mode throughout this so it will apply to all pages).

 

[DOMS]

Insert -> Header (Delete the default text)

Insert-> Text Box, Simple Textbox

Drag the text box to the location on the page you want

Delete the default text inside the textbox. With the cursor in the text box, go to insert-> Page Number -> Current Position -> Plain Number

Select the textbox & remove the border if you want to. Select the text box again & in the Format tab, hit the "Text Direction" button (on the far left) until it is in the direction you want.

(You must be in header edit mode throughout this so it will apply to all pages).

In previous versions of Word, all you needed to do was Insert->Page Numbers. I'm ever so happy with Microsoft's "innovation."

 

[busyLivin]

In previous versions of Word, all you needed to do was Insert->Page Numbers. I'm ever so happy with Microsoft's "innovation."

Well, to be fair.. his request is a little unorthodox. It still is just insert page number, but to have a page in landscape orientation & page number in the portrait, it gets a little goofy.

My steps may seem long, but in practice it takes a second to do.

 

[Scarface30]

Yeah, I know it's a weird request. I have some charts I am printing out for my thesis and the only way I can fit everything is if I have them landscape, however, all the other pages are landscape with numbers oriented in portrait. I strange combo.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give them a try.

 

[Kathybird]

I have always friggin' hated Word. Try WordPerfect, much more user-friendly.

 

[Scarface30]

I used to have WordPerfect but I can't seem to find the CD.

But I tried what busyLivin mentioned and it worked perfect. Thanks.

 

[Built]

Scarface, I'm glad that suggestion helped. I wonder though - why not simply orient your charts, rather than creating a section break, orienting that section in landscape, doing the "insert text box" etc ritual and setting up the page numbers in such an awkward manner? Wouldn't it be simpler formatting to just paste your charts, and rotate them 90°?

 

[Scarface30]

Built, I tried that earlier and the quality of the charts seemed to have diminished after I rotated them. Also, my supervisor didn't like it when I did that. .

 

[Built]

Mmmm, yeah, I should have considered that. Weird how it does that. Perhaps if you first pasted into MSPaint, did the transpose there, and then brought it in... but it's a moot point; your problem is solved.

 

[DOMS]

 

[Built]

WORD!!!

I love it!

 

[Gazhole]

In previous versions of Word, all you needed to do was Insert->Page Numbers. I'm ever so happy with Microsoft's "innovation."

I switched to OpenOffice after 2007 came out. So much easier to use.

 

[busyLivin]

I switched to OpenOffice after 2007 came out. So much easier to use.

I use openoffice at home too. Microsoft office in business is pretty much a standard though.

 

[DOMS]

I switched to OpenOffice after 2007 came out. So much easier to use.

I mostly use Google Docs, with the occasional Open Office.

I can get MS Office for free and I still don't use it.