Microsoft KB Archive/42920

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DOSWord: Printing Portrait and Landscape in Same Document

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Q42920

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for MS-DOS, versions 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

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SUMMARY
TIP: If you're looking for information about Word for MS-DOS, see the Word for MS-DOS support Help file. For details about how to obtain this help file, click the Qnumber below to see the KB article:

"Q248810 Word MS-DOS Help File Available: KB Articles About Word for MS-DOS"

Autorotation is the ability of some printers to rotate a portrait font 90 degrees to create a landscape font. This feature allows you to have portrait text and landscape text in the same document, but on different pages. Each division (Word version 5.0)/section (Word versions 5.5, 6.0) in a document can have only one orientation. Although a page can have more than one division/section, you cannot print in both portrait and landscape text on the same page because of the method Word uses to perform autorotation.

MORE INFORMATION
Word version 5.0 determines the orientation of a page by the values set in the &quot;page length:&quot; and &quot;width:&quot; fields of the the Format Division Margins command.

Word version 5.5, 6.0 determine the orientation of a page by the values set in the Height and Width boxes of the Format Margins command.

If the &quot;page length:&quot; (Height box in Word versions 5.5, 6.0) field is set to less than 9 inches and the &quot;width:&quot; (Width box in Word versions 5.5 and 6.0) field is set to greater than or equal to 9 inches, Word will send the page to the printer as landscape. Otherwise, Word will assume the page has portrait orientation.

Word supports autorotation on the following printers:

  Mannesmann Tally 910 Panasonic KX-P4450 Canon IIR Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 2000 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series IID, IIP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIID Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIP Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIsi Hewlett-Packard LaserJet series 4 IBM 4019 (native mode) All PostScript printers Additional query words: 5.00 5.50 2d 2p 2r

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