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From: Hershmab on 19 May 2010 13:11 For my HP Deskjet 3745 printer I have defined various custom paper sizes/forms. In general Word does not recognize them but does use them correctly when I set the printer properties for the Print command. However for one custom set, the basic page size is set to 148mm x 210mm - i.e. A5 rotated 90 degrees. This enables me to load A5 sheets directly over A4 instead of having to take out the A4 and make the in-tray narrower. The printer is set up to print sideways on this custom size instead of parallel to the platen. The normal layout for this set is specified as portrait but looks like landscape when printed. Using other software (including Excel 2003), this works exactly as I want it, printing landscape when I specify "portrait" and vice versa. However in Word this goes all wrong: however I specify the layout, Word shows and prints landscape, exactly as it would do if I specified the paper size as (standard) A5. This is not a serious problem as I can - obviously - work round it by inserting the paper in the printer in the standard way. But why does Word behave so differently from Excel and other software? How can I persuade it to do what I want? Also I shall be upgrading from XP/Office2003 to Windows-7/Office2007. Can I expect the same peculiar behaviour?
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 19 May 2010 18:00
I'm not clear exactly which direction you're printing, but it sounds as if you're printing across the long dimension of the A5 (Landscape); if so, make sure that you have the orientation set for Portrait; on the Paper tab, make sure you have 148mm as the height and 210mm as the width. If, on the other hand, you want to print across the short direction of the A5 (Portrait), then set the orientation for Landscape, with 148mm as the width and 210mm as the height. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Hershmab" <Hershmab(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AD19AE4C-BF2F-4712-939C-EA198E28F1D6(a)microsoft.com... > For my HP Deskjet 3745 printer I have defined various custom paper > sizes/forms. In general Word does not recognize them but does use them > correctly when I set the printer properties for the Print command. > > However for one custom set, the basic page size is set to 148mm x 210mm - > i.e. A5 rotated 90 degrees. This enables me to load A5 sheets directly > over > A4 instead of having to take out the A4 and make the in-tray narrower. The > printer is set up to print sideways on this custom size instead of > parallel > to the platen. > > The normal layout for this set is specified as portrait but looks like > landscape when printed. Using other software (including Excel 2003), this > works exactly as I want it, printing landscape when I specify "portrait" > and > vice versa. However in Word this goes all wrong: however I specify the > layout, Word shows and prints landscape, exactly as it would do if I > specified the paper size as (standard) A5. > > This is not a serious problem as I can - obviously - work round it by > inserting the paper in the printer in the standard way. But why does Word > behave so differently from Excel and other software? How can I persuade it > to > do what I want? > > Also I shall be upgrading from XP/Office2003 to Windows-7/Office2007. Can > I > expect the same peculiar behaviour? > |