[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 126608] Writer: Can't switch to Portrait

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126608

--- Comment #30 from Todd <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #26)
> (In reply to Todd from comment #25)
> > Please give me the exact steps to follow in "Format --> Page --> Page" such
> > that I can set the first page to Landscape and proceeding pages to Portrait
> > with manual break

> 0. Do *not* follow "Format --> Page --> Page".
> Let's think that we talk about some new document, which you have recently
> created, and possibly added some text, but not yet modified anything
> page-related.
> 1. Go to the very beginning of the document: Ctrl+Home.
> 2. Open paragraph properties: Format->Paragraph...
> 3. Go to "Text Flow" tab.
> 4. Check "[x] Insert" - "Type: Page" - "Position: Before" - "[x] With page
> style: Landscape".
> 5. OK.

Oh geez Mike.  No wonder I was having som many problems.  How is the world
would a standard user realize that "Format --> Page --> Page" trashed your
default format and did not allow you to change to portrait?  No one except a
developer like yourself would have thought to  go to Format-->Paragraph. 

You are right.  This is not a bug.  It is just really obscure and poorly
implemented.

How about changing this to a request for enhancement?  Make "Format --> Page
--> Page" act like what someone would logically expect.   

Format->Paragraph->Text Flow->Insert->Type: Page->Before->With page->style
Landscape".  Seriously???    How in the world is anyone other than a developer
suppose to know this?  Especially if they have used any other word processor
where Format->Page just sets the page's format and does not trash the default
style.  Wow!

Thank you for your patience with this.

I am not touching the status with this post either.

-T

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