Microsoft KB Archive/153135

= WD: Landscape Orientation Lost Converting To/From MacWord =

Article ID: 153135

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q153135



SYMPTOMS
When you convert a Word for the Macintosh version 5.x document to or from Word for Windows or Word for the Macintosh, the page orientation may revert to the Portrait setting.



CAUSE
Word for the Macintosh versions 5.x and 6.0 use the Macintosh system print engine, which determines page orientation.

The Word document retains Page Orientation information in a Macintosh print record. If the print record is missing or if a different printer on a different Macintosh computer generated it, landscape orientation reverts to portrait. See the "More Information" section later in this article for examples.



WORKAROUND
To set the orientation for the page, click Page Setup on the Layout menu, and then click the Landscape or the Portrait icon.



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.



MORE INFORMATION
 If you convert a  To this file from this    version of version of Word    Word         The page orientation is affected this way -

Word 5.x for the  Word 6.0     If the Word 5.x for Macintosh document is Macintosh          and later    created on the same Macintosh on which for the     Word 6.0 is installed, and if the same Macintosh   printer driver is currently active for both versions of Word, landscape orientation is retained when you open the 5.x document in 6.0.

Word 5.x for the  Word 6.0     If you have different printer driver Macintosh         and later    active for Word 5.x than you do for Word for the     6.0, and you open the document in Word 6.0 Macintosh   for the Macintosh, landscape orientation may revert to portrait. This may occur because different Macintosh printer drivers may write print record information in different ways, and the information on                                orientation may or may not be available in                                 a form that Word can recognize.

Word 6.0 and      Word 5.x     If a Word 6.0 for the Macintosh document later for the     for the      is saved in Word 5.x for the Macintosh Macintosh         Macintosh    format, even if Word 6.0 and 5.x are installed on the same system with the same printer driver active, landscape orientation reverts to portrait.

Word 5.x/6.0 for  Word 6.x     Landscape orientation is retained. the Macintosh     or 7.x for Windows

Word 6.x/7.x for  Word         Landscape orientation is lost because Windows or any    5.x/6.0 for  there is no Macintosh print record other PC program  the          associated with a document coming to the Macintosh   Macintosh from a PC.

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