Margins in mixed portrait/landscape doc

Nikko963 · #1 09-19-2018, 10:55 AM

Hi, everyone.

I have a Word 2016 document that is made up of portrait pages. This document will be used as a template by others as a jumping off point. One of thing things they will probably need to do is add a page and swap it to landscape so that they can insert a full page landscape diagram.

The problem is that if they insert a page/section break to generate the blank page, and then change it to landscape, the margins are swapped (so that the margin for the top of the portrait page now becomes the right-side margin). This is incredibly frustrating as it messes up the headers and footers. I want the margins to remain absolute for the top, bottom, left and right sides regardless of orientation. I don't want my users to have to manually change the margins every time they introduce a landscape page, which is just plain stupid.

Is there a way to do this? Am I missing something?

macropod · #2 09-19-2018, 04:23 PM

You could use a macro like:

Code:

Sub ChangeOrientation()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim sMT As Single, sMB As Single, SML As Single, sMR As Single, sMG As Single
With Selection
  .InsertBreak wdSectionBreakNextPage
  With .PageSetup
    sMT = .TopMargin
    sMB = .BottomMargin
    sMR = .RightMargin
    SML = .LeftMargin
    sMG = .Gutter
    .Orientation = (.Orientation + 1) Mod 2
    .TopMargin = sMT
    .BottomMargin = sMB
    .RightMargin = sMR
    .LeftMargin = SML
    .Gutter = sMG
  End With
End With
End Sub

in the document's template and, perhaps, assign it to a shortcut key.

For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: https://wordmvp.com/Mac/InstallMacro.html

Nikko963 · #3 10-03-2018, 09:56 AM

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

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