How to change the orientation of 1 page in Word. How to make a landscape page in LibreOffice
In spreadsheet and spreadsheet editor openoffice And libreoffice You can configure two types of page orientations: portrait orientation, that is, vertical (normal page view), or landscape orientation, that is, the horizontal layout of the page. To set the page orientation, select the following items in sequence: Format/Page… Next, in the dialog box that appears, “Page Style. Normal”, select the “Page” tab. On this tab, in addition to setting the page orientation, you can also set margins, that is, indents from the edges, as well as set the page numbering format. In particular, when numbering pages, you can use letters(A, B, C), pagination in Roman numerals, etc.
Setting the page orientation in text editor Writer in OpenOffice and LibreOffice
In the text editor of two office applications, the page orientation is set by identical commands. The Format/Pages items are selected one by one... After selecting these commands, the “Page Style: Normal” dialog box will appear. The view of this window is identical to that in a text editor. libreoffice, and in a text editor openoffice, which is due to the fact that LibreOffice is a fork of the freely distributed office suite OpenOffice.
Setting the page orientation in the Calc spreadsheet editor in OpenOffice and LibreOffice
In a spreadsheet editor Calc both the LibreOffice office suite and the OpenOffice office suite, setting the page orientation, that is, setting either the vertical (portrait) page display or the horizontal (landscape) page display in the document, occurs in an identical way and coincides with the page orientation setting in a text editor Writer. That is, in order to change the page orientation, for example, from landscape to portrait or vice versa from portrait to landscape, you need to select the “Format” item in the main menu and select the “Pages” item in the drop-down list of commands. Further, after the “Page Style: Basic” dialog box appears, select the “Page” tab and in the “Orientation” item check the box next to either the “Landscape” item or opposite the “Portrait” item.
Changing page orientation occurs automatically throughout the document.
1. Change page orientation in OpenOffice.org Writer
2. Change Page Orientation in LibreOffice Writer
3. Changing page orientation in OpenOffice.org Calc
To be honest, I'm not very good at office programs;)
But since there are often questions about programs like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice at work, I decided to deal with these issues better.
Change the page orientation of an entire document
1. Click on the menu Format -> Page
2.In the dialog box Page Style: Plain select tab Page, check the box for the desired orientation ( Book or landscape)
As a result, the orientation will change on all pages of the document.
Change the orientation of an individual page
And here I pretty much suffered, because it's not as easy and convenient as in Word))
The method I've used is more than clumsy... but it still works.
This method is based on the use styles.
1.Open your document in OpenOffice Writer
2.Open style menu: Format -> Styles ( or F11)
3.In the dialog box Styles and Formatting select icon Page styles
4.Click on the icon Create style from selection and select item Create style from selection
5. Enter the name of your style to be created, for example: My style
6. Right-click on the created style ( My style) -> select from the context menu Change
7. Actions in the dialog box Page Style: My Style
tab Controls -> Next Style -> Normal
The next style - Normal - is required so that the next page after the changed one remains the same.
8.On the tab Page -> Orientation -> Landscape -> OK
Typically, a single page orientation is set for the entire document. But in some cases, it is required to make one or more pages of a different orientation.
I suggest several ways to do this. As an initial condition, we accept the situation when two pages of landscape orientation must be inserted among portrait-oriented pages.
Along the way, the article answers the following questions:
- How to make the title start on a new page
- How to change page numbering
- How to insert a break
- How to remove a gap
Manual way
To change the page orientation, you must first insert Page break and set the page style that follows it.
- Open the document and set the mouse cursor on the page behind the text. Those. if we have some text, then the cursor must be located behind it, otherwise the part of the text after the cursor will jump to the next page.
- Because we need insert gap, therefore go to the tab "Insert → Break".
- The "Insert break" dialog will open, in which we set the marker opposite "Page Break", and in the list "Style" choose "Landscape". Click "OK".
Album page inserted. A break is indicated by a blue bar above the page. Now press the Ctrl+Enter key combination on your keyboard. We will have another landscape page. Instead of a keyboard shortcut, you could insert a break again.
So that after landscape pages pages with portrait orientation again go, repeat steps 1-3, but only in the list "Style" choose "Base"(or the one you created).
There is nothing complicated. But you should keep in mind if you changed the page parameters outside the style (i.e. just through the dialog "Format → Page"), then most likely after inserting the style "Base" you will have pages with other parameters.
To avoid this, it is better to create the page style you need in advance or modify an existing page style to suit your requirements. You can read about what styles are and how to work with them.
false path
Many forums and blogs give an erroneous solution to this issue. There it is proposed to open the page settings dialog "Format → Page" and on the tab "Control" choose "Next Style".
This approach leads to confusion. This is a completely different function. Let's say you have a page with a style "Base" and this is the main style of all the pages in your document. Behind every page with style "Base" automatically followed by a page with the same style. If you ask him "Next Style", For example, "Landscape", then you will start alternating pages. Every time after page with style "Base" will automatically follow the page with the style "Landscape". As soon as you insert a base page after the landscape page, the landscape page will go after the base page again and this will happen every time.
Therefore, you shouldn't do that. To disrupt the normal flow of pages, a page break is used, since usually only one or two different pages need to be inserted.
Pager extension
There is a convenient Pager extension (http://myooo.ru/content/view/106/99/), which serves to quick insert pages. In particular, it can be used to quickly change the orientation of individual pages.
Page settings
Everything in LibreOffice is built around styles. Even if you don't explicitly apply them, you still use styles. Every page has its own style. The standard template defaults to a page with style "Base".
If you just go to tab "Format → Page" and change the page settings there, you don't change the style itself. You make changes only for a specific page. Therefore, if you need to change page settings, change the page style.
For more information on styles:
Don't be lazy to learn styles. In MS Office, too, everything is based on styles. Large documents cannot be properly formatted without their use.
Title from new page
With a page break, you can, for example, make all chapter titles automatically start on a new page.
To do this in the header style on the tab "Position on the page" you need to ask "Tears". It is possible not to specify a specific page style, in which case the page style used throughout the document will be applied.
Change page numbering
Using page breaks and page styles, you can change the numbering of the next page, for example, the 3rd page can immediately be followed by the 8th. This also uses the insert break dialog.
Removing a gap
To delete a break, just place the cursor in front of the break and press the Backspace key on the keyboard.
And again about logic
Again, I want to talk about logic. I keep saying that the LibreOffice interface is very logical. But sometimes logic requires certain knowledge.
It is quite logical to try to change the page orientation using the dialog "Page settings" ("Format → Page"). However, it cannot achieve the desired result, as it changes the settings for all pages in the document.
Programs can't read people's minds. Conveniently, the portrait page is automatically followed by a portrait page as well. Indeed, in most cases, a separate document is drawn up in a single style. It would be extremely inconvenient to tell the program which page to follow each time. But even in this case, a mechanism has been devised with "Page Break".
However, the page break is a paragraph parameter. Not everyone can follow this logic. The fact is that programs such as LibreOffice operate on paragraphs. A paragraph is primary, without a paragraph there is no page. Neither LibreOffice nor MS Office can create a completely blank page. Always on new page there will be a blinking cursor and an empty line will be automatically made. Yes, an empty line is also a paragraph.
Programs that are used to create printed products (Scribus, Inkscape, CorelDraw, Illustrator and the like) on the contrary operate on pages. For them, the primary page on which you can place images, text blocks, etc.
Therefore, in LibreOffice, a page break is a paragraph attribute. Take a look at the picture below.
Paragraphs are marked with blue marks. By making a page break, we kind of tell the program that the next paragraph should start on a new page.
So, the logic is still present, but to understand it, you need to know the basics.
Breaks in Microsoft Office
In Microsoft Office, a page break is a special character. inserted from the menu "Insert → Break" or by inserting a special character with code 012.
In Libre/Open Office, a page break is a property of a paragraph.
By default, in the LibreOffice editor, the page looks exactly like a regular sheet of A4 paper and has a portrait orientation. This is necessary because for most office documents, abstracts, term papers and theses the default is this orientation.
But there are a number of documents that need to be placed in landscape format, for example, wide tables or any schemes. In Microsoft Office, all this is very simple, but Libre is a little different. In this article, we will look at how to do in LibreOffice landscape page different ways.
How to make a landscape page in LibreOffice
The easiest way is when you need to landscape all the pages in your document. Then it's relatively easy. Just open the menu "Format" -> "Page", and then click the tab "Page":
Here you can move the switch from position "Book" V "Landscape":
In addition, in the same window, you can configure the fields. The following methods are not much more difficult than the first, but they tell you how to do it in libreoffice landscape sheet only one of the set. To do this, place the cursor at the beginning of the first paragraph on desired page, then right click on it, select "Page…", then switch to the tab "Control":
LibreOffice has several page styles. The default is basic. But besides, there is a style "album", in which, just, the orientation of the landscape page is set. After that, the page you selected will become landscape.
Another way to do landscape orientation LibreOffice pages. In LibreOffice, there is such a thing as breaks. It is similar to the same term in Microsoft Office. For each section, the program sets a separate style.
First, create a new section in front of the page you want to make landscape, to do this, open "Insert" —"Gap":
Select here "Gap", and as a style - "Landscape" or you can set the style later, as was done in the first option. Further at the end of your new landscape page, you can insert a new break to return to portrait orientation. So that you can see where the breaks are located, turn on the display of non-printing characters. Then the breaks will show up as a blue dotted line between pages.
conclusions
In this short article, we looked at how to make a landscape page in LibreOffice. As you can see, everything here is not much more complicated than in Microsoft Office. If you have any questions, ask in the comments!
From LibreOffice Help
All page properties for Writer text documents, such as page orientation, are defined using page styles. By default, a new text document uses the Default page style for all pages. By the time the existing text document To different pages may have already been applied various styles pages.
Note that changes to page properties only affect pages with the current page style. The current page style is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
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Change page orientation for all pages
If the text document only consists of pages with the same page style, you can change the page properties directly:
- Select Format - Page.
- Open a tab Page.
- In point Paper size
- Click the button OK.
Change page orientation for only some pages
To determine the page orientation in LibreOffice documents page styles are used. With page styles, you can define many page properties, such as the top and footer or fields. In addition, for the current document, you can change the default page style or define own styles pages with these styles applied to any piece of text.
At the end of this help page is detailed information about page styles. For getting additional information see the section at the end of the page for the concept of page style.
To change the page orientation for all pages with the same style, first create the corresponding page style, and then apply that style:
- Choose a team.
- Click icon Page styles.
- Right-click a page style and select New. A new style The page initially gets all the properties of the selected page style.
- On the tab Control enter a name for the page style in the field Name, for example, "My Landscape Orientation".
- In field next style select the page style you want to apply to the page that follows the page with the new style. See the section on applying page styles at the end of this help page.
- Open a tab Page.
- In point Paper size select “Portrait” or “Landscape”.
- Click the button OK.
An appropriate page style has now been defined, named "My Landscape". To apply the new style, double-click the My Landscape page style in the window Styles and Formatting. All pages in the current page style area are changed. Selecting a different style as "next style" only changes the first page of the current page style area.== Page style area ==
The Page Styles area in LibreOffice must be known. Which pages of a text document are affected by editing the page style?
Single Page Styles
A page style can only be applied to one page. As an example, consider the “First Page” style. To set this property, define a different page style as the "next style" on the tab.
A single-page style starts at the bottom of the current page style range and is applied until the next page break. The next page break appears automatically when the text moves to the next page, sometimes referred to as a "soft page break". Alternatively, you can insert a page break manually.
To manually insert a page break at the cursor position, press CTRL+ENTER or select Insert - Gap and just click the "OK" button.
Selecting where to apply a page style manually
The “Default” page style does not include the selection of the “next style” on the tab Format - Page - Control. Instead, "next style" is also defined as the "Default" style. All page styles that are followed by the same page style can apply to multiple pages. The lower and upper bounds of the page style range are defined using "page breaks with style". All pages between any two "styled page breaks" have the same page style applied.
You can insert a "page break with style" directly at the cursor position. Alternatively, you can apply the page break with style property to a paragraph or paragraph style.
Run any of the following commands:
- To insert a "page break with style" at the cursor position, select Insert - Gap, then select a name from the list Style and click the "OK" button.
- To apply the page break with style property to the current paragraph, select Format - Paragraph - Text Placement Activate And With page style
- To apply the page break with style property to the current paragraph style, right-click the current paragraph. From the context menu, select Edit paragraph style. Open a tab On the page. In the Breaks area, select Activate And With page style. Select a page style name from the list.
- To apply the "page break with style" property to a custom paragraph style, select Format - Styles and Formatting. Click icon Paragraph styles. Right-click the name of the paragraph style you want to change and choose Change. Open a tab On the page. In the Breaks area, select Activate And With page style. Select a page style name from the list.
