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Subject:Re: Landscape and portrait in Word 6.0 From:"Bailey, Doug S" <dsbailey -at- PO4 -dot- PCMAIL -dot- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 15 Feb 1995 14:48:00 CST
Forfeit the portrait headers and footers, and go with the landscape for
everything. Simplest maneuver.
Doug
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>From: TECHWR-L
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>Subject: Landscape and portrait in Word 6.0
>Date: Wednesday, February 15, 1995 11:35AM
>Hi everybody.
>I have a document (document number one) where currently all the pages are
>in portrait. I need to add three new chapters from document number two.
>Problem is, document number two is in landscape, and when I import it
>into the first document, formatting gets screwed up. There are two
>problems: document number two has tables that are too wide for portrait,
>unless I shrink the font way down. Second problem is a header/footer
>problem: I would like to have portrait headers/footers, but landscape
>text, and Word 6.0 can't do it (at least according to Word support).
