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    <title id="tit">Changing Page Orientation (Landscape or Portrait)</title>
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  <bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id9683828"><bookmark_value>page styles;orientation/scope</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>page formats; changing individual pages</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>formatting; changing individual pages</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>portrait and landscape</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>landscape and portrait</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>printing;portrait/landscape format</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>orientation of pages</bookmark_value>
    <bookmark_value>paper orientation</bookmark_value>
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    <bookmark_value>scope of page styles</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="par_idN106FF"><variable id="pageorientation"><link href="text/swriter/guide/pageorientation.xhp">Changing Page Orientation</link>
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      <paragraph id="par_id6418042" role="paragraph">All page properties for Writer text documents, like for example the page orientation, are defined by page styles. By default, a new text document uses the “Default” page style for all pages. If you open an existing text document, different page styles may have been applied to the different pages. </paragraph>
      <paragraph id="par_id8324533" role="paragraph">It is important to know that changes that you apply to a page property will only affect the pages that use the current page style. The current page style is listed in the Status Bar at the lower window border.</paragraph>
      <h2 id="par_id7524033">To Change the Page Orientation for All Pages</h2>
      <paragraph id="par_id6307260" role="paragraph">If your text document consists only of pages with the same page style, you can change the page properties directly:</paragraph>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id5256508" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>Format - Page Style</menuitem>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id9681997" role="listitem">Click the <emph>Page</emph> tab.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id7994323" role="listitem">Under <item type="menuitem">Paper format</item>, select “Portrait” or “Landscape”.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id7069002" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id4202398">To Change the Page Orientation Only for Some Pages</h2>
      <paragraph id="par_idN1071D" role="paragraph">$[officename] uses page styles to specify the orientation of the pages in a document. Page styles define more page properties, as for example header and footer or page margins. You can either change the “Default” page style for the current document, or you can define own page styles and apply those page styles to any parts of your text. </paragraph>
      <paragraph id="par_id1449324" role="paragraph">At the end of this help page, we'll discuss the scope of page styles in detail. If you are unsure about the page style concept, please read the section at the end of this page.</paragraph>
      <note id="par_id1480758">Unlike character styles or paragraph styles, the page styles don't know a hierarchy. You can create a new page style based on the properties of an existing page style, but when you later change the source style, the new page style does not automatically inherit the changes.</note>
      <paragraph id="par_id2962126" role="paragraph">To change the page orientation for all pages that share the same page style, you first need a page style, then apply that style:</paragraph>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN10727" role="listitem">Choose <emph>View - Styles</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN10741" role="listitem">Click the <emph>Page Styles</emph> icon.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN10749" role="listitem">Right-click a page style and choose <emph>New</emph>. The new page style initially gets all properties of the selected page style.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN10751" role="listitem">On the <emph>General</emph> tab page, type a name for the page style in the <emph>Name</emph> box, for example "My Landscape".</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN1075D" role="listitem">In the <emph>Next Style</emph> box, select the page style that you want to apply to the next page that follows a page with the new style. See the section about the scope of page styles at the end of this help page.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN10775" role="listitem">Click the <emph>Page</emph> tab.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN1077D" role="listitem">Under <item type="menuitem">Paper format</item>, select “Portrait” or “Landscape”.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_idN108AE" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <paragraph id="par_id1658375" role="listitem">Now you have defined a proper page style with the name "My Landscape". To apply the new style, double-click the "My Landscape" page style in the <emph>Styles</emph> window. All pages in the current scope of page styles will be changed. If you defined the "next style" to be a different style, only the first page of the current scope of page styles will be changed.</paragraph>

  <h2 id="hd_id151633462071702">To Quickly Switch Between Portrait and Landscape Page Layout</h2>
  <section id="quick_orientation">
    <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id51633462108943">The default template provided by %PRODUCTNAME Writer offers several page layout styles, among which the <emph>Default Page Style</emph> has Portrait orientation and the <emph>Landscape</emph> style has landscape orientation.</paragraph>
    <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id321633462254730">These styles can be used to quickly switch between portrait and landscape orientation by inserting manual breaks and choosing the appropriate page styles as described below:</paragraph>
    <list type="ordered">
      <listitem>
        <paragraph id="par_id21633462303911" role="listitem">Place the cursor where the page break is to be inserted.</paragraph>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <paragraph id="par_id841633462305362" role="listitem">Go to <menuitem>Insert - More Breaks - Manual Break</menuitem>. The <emph>Insert Break</emph> dialog will open.</paragraph>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <paragraph id="par_id31633462305839" role="listitem">Choose the option <emph>Page break</emph> and in the <emph>Page Style</emph> drop-down list choose the page style to be applied to the page after the break (Default Page Style, Landscape, etc).</paragraph>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <paragraph id="par_id51633462306574" role="listitem">If the applied has to be changed again at a certain point in the document (for instance, to switch back from landscape to portrait orientation), place the cursor at this point and repeat the steps previously described.</paragraph>
      </listitem>
    </list>
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      <section id="scope">
         <h2 id="hd_id6082949">The Scope of Page Styles</h2>
         <paragraph id="par_id2858668" role="paragraph">You should be aware of the scope of page styles in %PRODUCTNAME. Which pages of your text document get affected by editing a page style?</paragraph>
         <h3 id="hd_id3278603">One Page Long Styles</h3>
         <paragraph id="par_id5169225" role="paragraph">A page style can be defined to span one page only. The “First Page” style is an example. You set this property by defining another page style to be the "next style", on the <menuitem>Format - Page Style - General</menuitem> tab page.</paragraph>
         <paragraph id="par_id6670125" role="paragraph">A one page long style starts from the lower border of the current page style range up to the next page break. The next page break appears automatically when the text flows to the next page, which is sometimes called a "soft page break". Alternatively, you can insert a manual page break.</paragraph>
         <paragraph id="par_id2118594" role="paragraph">To insert a manual page break at the cursor position, press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><keycode>Command</keycode></caseinline><defaultinline><keycode>Ctrl</keycode></defaultinline></switchinline><keycode>+Enter</keycode> or choose <menuitem>Insert - Manual Break</menuitem> and just click OK.</paragraph>
         <h3 id="hd_id166020">Manually Defined Range of a Page style</h3>
         <paragraph id="par_id6386913" role="paragraph">The “Default” page style does not set a different "next style" on the <menuitem>Format - Page Style - General</menuitem> tab page. Instead, the "next style" is set also to be “Default”. All page styles that are followed by the same page style can span multiple pages. The lower and upper borders of the page style range are defined by "page breaks with style". All the pages between any two "page breaks with style" use the same page style.</paragraph>
         <paragraph id="par_id6062196" role="paragraph">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 to a paragraph style.</paragraph>
         <paragraph id="par_id6054261" role="paragraph">Perform any one of the following commands:</paragraph>
         <list type="unordered">
            <listitem>
               <paragraph id="par_id1811578" role="listitem">To insert a "page break with style" at the cursor position, choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Manual Break</item>, select a <emph>Style</emph> name from the listbox, and click OK.</paragraph>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
               <paragraph id="par_id9935911" role="listitem">To apply the “page break with style” property to the current paragraph, choose <menuitem>Format - Paragraph - Text Flow</menuitem>. In the Breaks area, activate <menuitem>Insert</menuitem> and <menuitem>With Page Style</menuitem>. Select a page style name from the listbox.</paragraph>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
               <paragraph id="par_id4753868" role="listitem">To apply the “page break with style” property to the current paragraph style, right-click the current paragraph. Choose <menuitem>Edit Paragraph Style</menuitem> from the context menu. Click the <menuitem>Text Flow</menuitem> tab. In the Breaks area, activate <menuitem>Insert</menuitem> and <menuitem>With Page Style</menuitem>. Select a page style name from the listbox.</paragraph>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
               <paragraph id="par_id4744407" role="listitem">To apply the “page break with style” property to an arbitrary paragraph style, choose <menuitem>View - Styles</menuitem>. Click the <menuitem>Paragraph Styles</menuitem> icon. Right-click the name of the paragraph style you want to modify and choose <menuitem>Edit Style</menuitem>. Click the <menuitem>Text Flow</menuitem> tab. In the Breaks area, activate <menuitem>Insert</menuitem> and <menuitem>With Page Style</menuitem>. Select a page style name from the listbox.</paragraph>
            </listitem>
         </list>
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