In Open Office you can set the landscape format with just a few clicks, for example if you want to create and print posters or information signs.
Open Office: Set up documents in landscape format
The landscape format is practical if you not only have text, but also want to include graphics. With Open Office you can also set up your document directly in landscape format.
- Launch your Open Office Writer and open a blank document.
- In the upper part of the window, open the “Format” menu.
- If you click on the “Page” sub-item, a dialog box opens.
- Here select the “Page” tab.
- Under Orientation, click on “Landscape” and confirm your selection with “OK”.
Set landscape format in Open Office for only one page
It is also possible to not set the entire document horizontally, but only one page.
- Click at the top of the page you want to align horizontally.
- Go to “Insert” and “Manual Wrap” in the menu.
- Then click on “Page Break” and select “Landscape” in the dropdown under Template.
- Confirm with “Ok”.
- Now all subsequent pages will be created in landscape format. If you only want one page to be landscape and the next pages to be vertical, click on the beginning of the next page, go back to the “Insert menu” and repeat the individual steps until you select “Standard” for template.