docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

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#1

HI

I downloaded a docx file (no idea what release) for my partner onto a Windows 10 laptop and printed it out successfully where some pages were landscape format in the middle of the document. I saved it its own format as i thought she'd be sending to one of her mates who uses Word. She then started editing it and when she got to the landscape pages, the landscape format had reverted to portrait and the table on the tried used the landscape dimensions and it squashed the right hand columns, i assume this happened when i saved it.

Question is: Can i make LO use landscape on various pages i choose and correct the problem. I did try but it landscaped every page.

regards

Ian

#2

This is not a question of file format (DOCX or whatever); it's a question of having multiple page styles (at least one portrait style and one landscape style) in the document. You just need to specify both styles, according to use and when you make a page break from one style to the other, do so explicitly:
   Insert > More Breaks > Manual Break > Page Break, and specify the Style of the next page.

#3

Great, thanks John.
I thought it was one of the those odd issues that hadn't been catered for in LO keeping the DOCX format correctly and i was thinking it needed a bug report as well.