Paper Orientation and Size

Quick reference

• 00:05 Okay, changing paper orientation and
• 00:07 size is actually kind of a great exercise just to know you have the power to do it.
• 00:12 In order to do this, I really want to see the entire full page on my screen.
• 00:16 So I'm going to click the One Page button that is under the View ribbon, One Page.
• 00:22 I've added it to my Quick Access Toolbar because I always use it.
• 00:25 So right now I have an 8.5 by 11 piece of paper.
• 00:28 So what we're going to do is change the orientation to the landscape.
• 00:31 Now, landscape means horizontal, portrait means vertical.
• 00:35 Okay, so on the Layout ribbon, we have the Orientation button.
• 00:38 It's already portrait, so when I click on Landscape, there we go.
• 00:42 I want to shift this again so I can see more of the page on my screen.
• 00:46 And just in case you're, I don't know, typing a menu up and
• 00:49 you want to fold it in half, this is a great way to just lay it out landscape.
• 00:53 All right, let's switch that immediately right back to portrait so
• 00:56 you can see the difference.
• 00:58 Now let's go ahead and change the size.
• 01:01 The paper size is important because under the Size button on layout, we have
• 01:06 tabloids, legal papers which is just slightly longer than a regular 8.5 by 11.
• 01:11 We have statements that will be billing statement.
• 01:14 Executive letterheads are always just slightly smaller than a letter.
• 01:18 These other options are international letter sizes, and
• 01:21 at the very bottom, we do have our envelope sizes, and more paper sizes.
• 01:26 So let's go ahead and choose Tabloid.
• 01:28 And Tabloid 11 by 17, this is if you're putting out a local newspaper or
• 01:33 newsletter or something.
• 01:35 And this is a very long sheet of paper.
• 01:37 Actually held menus as big in restaurants.
• 01:40 But let's go ahead and change that orientation to landscape.
• 01:46 Look at it full size.
• 01:49 Could you imagine now a fold line down this, that would be a nice,
• 01:53 nice newsletter.
• 01:54 Okay, let's set this back to portrait, and I want to customize our size.
• 02:00 So I chose the Size button with the bottom More Paper Sizes.
• 02:06 And I'll change this just to letter and I'm going to type in my own sizes.
• 02:11 Back in the days when we actually wrote handwritten notes,
• 02:14 sometimes we had nice stationery that we purchased.
• 02:18 We could have a 5.5 inch wide by a 7.5 inch tall,
• 02:23 but my margins are so big.
• 02:26 So I can go ahead and click the Margins, and
• 02:29 I could change those to a 0.5 all the way around the edges.
• 02:33 And then when I hit OK, there it is.
• 02:37 There's the final product, very small piece of paper.
• 02:41 Now if you want to zip very quickly back into all of that,
• 02:44 remember to double-click on that ruler, put your mouse on the ruler, double-click,
• 02:49 and there it is, right back to it.
• 02:51 So you can save the time from traveling up to the layout,
• 02:55 then over to the orientation, because on the Margins button is your orientations,
• 03:00 and right behind the paper, there are all the sizes, okay?
• 03:05 Go ahead and practice that.

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