landscape printing

Question

I'm printing a document which has a mixture of portrait and landscape sections. The landscape sections are printed in landscape BUT should be rotated 180 degrees. I cannot find where this property is set.

It should be noted:

This document has printed correctly in the past.

The same problem appears to occur with all my word documents (which have landscape) but eg pdf files are printed correctly

Answer 1

Suzanne hi and thanks again.

Currently neither "print on back ....etc" are selected. I've selected each in turn and tried printing but no change.

I currently sort by hand but it's a pain especially as it never occurred until I "upgraded" from Office 97-2003 to MS Office 365!.

Thanks again

Rae

Answer 2

You might try the mysterious options at File | Options | Advanced: Print: "Print on front of sheet for duplex printing" or "Print on back of sheet for duplex printing." I think this is more of a page order issue; I have noticed that my printer, which normally outputs pages face down, when duplexing, prints the back of the sheet first in order to output the pages back side up, which keeps the pages in order. A printer that ordinarily outputs pages face up will usually print them in reverse order for the same reason and presumably prints the front of the page first. So I doubt that these settings would be relevant to the page orientation issue, but they might be worth a try.

Provided you aren't printing portrait on the back of landscape or vice versa (which Word will make Herculean efforts to avoid), you should at least be able to rotate the physical page after printing.

Answer 3

Suzanne hi and thanks.

However this only occurs when printing MS Word 365 (eg pdf files which are a mixture of portrait and landscape print correctly). I'm sure the issue is somewhere within Word not the printer. However I have already checked the options in the printer software "just in case".

Regards

rae

Answer 4

This depends on how the printer handles the pages. You can look at the printer Properties to see whether there are any settings that might be relevant.