Make one page in word landscape mac pdf#

Just in case this custom page size was the cause of the odd PDF, I changed the page orientation setting on the Margins tab to Landscape. One of the authors had set a Custom size for the paper size and defined a width and height that matched a landscape A4 page, thinking they were doing the right thing, but in hindsight they werenвЂ™t - it was a case of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing! The first thing I noticed was that Portrait was selected, not Landscape, even though Landscape was showing as selected on the Orientation button on the ribbon.

It looked like a landscape section and when I checked the Orientation options on the Page Layout tab in Word, it said it was Landscape, but when I opened the Page Setup dialog box, all was revealed. What appeared to be a landscape section wasnвЂ™t. So I decided to take a closer look at the Word document, and there I found the problem. In fact, for some tests, I just made it worse!

Make one page in word landscape mac pdf#

I tried several things - re-creating the PDF using Acrobat, using WordвЂ™s PDF option, fiddling with the settings in Acrobat etc.

One of my work colleagues sent me a Word 2007 document and its resulting PDF and asked me to see if I could figure out what was happening with two landscape sections.Д«oth sections looked like this in the PDF, though they looked perfectly fine in the Word document - notice how the two pages with the maps have headers and footers going off the page and that the page is the same dimensions as the Portrait-oriented page above: