Export/Report PDF Orientation

Question

There should be a choice in export/Reports( subscription) to change the orientation as all PDFS come out portrait and this should be an option. I know I can print to PDF and this may solve it, but a workaround shouldn't be necessary

Answer 1

Changing PDF orientation at export or in subscriptions is only supported where the product explicitly exposes a page-orientation setting for the PDF conversion or print pipeline. In the provided context, this is available in Dynamics 365 Electronic Reporting (ER) and in some print scenarios, but not as a generic, user-selectable “orientation” option on all Microsoft 365/Office report exports.

Key points from the available information:

1. In Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Electronic Reporting (ER), when exporting to Excel and converting to PDF, page orientation can be controlled:
   • On the Electronic reporting destination, when Convert to PDF is enabled for an Excel output, a Page orientation field appears with options:
     • Portrait
     • Landscape
     • Worksheet specific
   • The selected orientation applies to all pages of the generated PDF, or, with Worksheet specific, each worksheet uses the orientation defined in the Excel template. This can produce mixed portrait/landscape pages in a single PDF.
   • For Word-based ER configurations converted to PDF, the PDF orientation always follows the Word document’s page setup; there is no separate orientation selector in the conversion step.
2. For ER printer destinations, PDF conversion is automatic for printing, but orientation control still depends on enabling Convert to PDF when printing Excel-based outputs:
   • The Printer destination converts to PDF for printing even if Convert to PDF is off.
   • To choose a specific page orientation when printing an Excel-format outbound document, Convert to PDF must be set to Yes, which then exposes the Page orientation field.
3. Outside of these ER-specific features, the context does not describe a general “orientation choice” in export dialogs or subscriptions for other Microsoft 365/Office reporting surfaces. In many Office/OneDrive scenarios, orientation is chosen at print time in the PDF viewer or printer dialog, not as part of the export/subscription definition.

Given the available documentation, if a reporting surface does not expose a page-orientation option in its export or subscription UI, orientation is determined by the underlying document/template (for Word) or by the Excel template plus any ER PDF conversion settings (for Dynamics 365 ER). In such cases, using print-to-PDF or adjusting the source template’s page setup is the supported approach until or unless the product adds a dedicated orientation selector to the export/subscription workflow.

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References:

• Output conversion to PDF
• Printer destination
• View, print, and edit PDFs in a PDF reader