I think swifty2010 put it in simple terms. What he wants is to have a landscape page with its header on the long side where the lever arch file holes are punched. Word does not do this – as a default it orients the landscape page so that the footer gets the holes.

If you have a thick document with mixed portrait and landscape sections and with the landscape sections hosting large tables it’s more convenient to have the headers on the hole-punched side. You can then flip the table pages more easily – try it.

Once in PDF I can use Acrobat to turn the landscape pages – but I had hoped to be able to do the same trick within Word for a complete landscape section. It’s not a question of margins or binding areas, it’s only an orientation issue.

I used to have a boat – and port and starboard certainly beats left and right. Perhaps there’s a printer’s equivalent of port and starboard?