[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 158312] Perhaps changing the orientation in Page Layout does not work conveniently for Calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158312

--- Comment #3 from ady <adylo811517 at gmail.com> ---
The whole set of confusions regarding changing between portrait and landscape
in Calc (and there are a variety of them) is all related to how (not) intuitive
the necessary actions are.

Page orientation in Calc is related to (or influences):
* repeating items (e.g. header/footer, but also either rows or columns)
* print preview
* actual physical printing
* exporting to other file formats (e.g. pdf, or xlsx)

In Calc, changing the page orientation depends on changing (or creating) the
page _style_ (sometimes on _each_ worksheet).

Users of other spreadsheet tools that have a different workflow (e.g. don't
rely on page styles for a simple page orientation change) are naturally having
difficulties in Calc with such trivial action such as modifying page
orientation on worksheets.

Such users are trying to follow a commonly used workflow, not only used on
other spreadsheet tools but also in many other types of software.

For Calc users to be able to know how to do it "correctly" in Calc, they first
have to be aware of the existence of "Page Styles", and then understand and
learn what actions are dependent on "Page Styles" (and on each area of Calc
that mentions something about page orientation, including also OS' Printer
settings). This learning curve for Calc is not intuitive, nor simple. I guess
this is not limited only to this report, but rather to anything in LibreOffice
dependent on Style (page, cell format, paragraph, and so on).

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