Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

On Monday, 3 May 2021 17:49:28 BST John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2021-05-03 08:15, Ianseeks wrote:
> > ...
> > I downloaded a docx file ... where some pages were landscape format in the middle of the 
> > document. ... 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 ... Can i make LO use landscape on various 
> > pages i choose and correct the problem.  I did try but it landscaped every page.
>
> 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.
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.

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