Paper Orientation and Size

Quick reference

• 00:05 In the lesson about paper orientation size,
• 00:07 you basically need to know that there's two types of orientation.
• 00:10 Again, this is on the layout ribbon.
• 00:12 The orientation is portrait, which is the tall piece of paper.
• 00:15 Landscape, which is a sideways piece of paper.
• 00:18 Sometimes the only way to know when you're staring at your screen
• 00:22 is you just look at your ruler.
• 00:24 I can see that I've got six and a half inches of typing area with an inch on
• 00:27 either end, six and a half plus two, that's eight and a half.
• 00:32 Eight and a half by eleven is a letter piece of paper, so
• 00:34 obviously this is portrait.
• 00:36 So if I switch it to landscape, look what happens to my ruler.
• 00:40 I've got nine inches of typing room, one each on either end, that's 11.
• 00:43 So this is a sideways piece of paper.
• 00:45 That's a quickest way at a glance to know if your orientation is correct or not.
• 00:50 All right, so let's go ahead and switch this back to portrait orientation, and
• 00:55 let me scroll down, so you can just actually see.
• 00:58 I'm just pressing control and wheeling down to zoom down.
• 01:01 So portrait and landscape.
• 01:03 Now, landscape, it looks like this went into columns, but it didn't.
• 01:06 Everything's just left aligned, but
• 01:08 because it went sideways, it looks like it might be two columns, but it's not.
• 01:12 Okay, going back to portrait,
• 01:13 now let's talk about size, yhe size of the piece of paper.
• 01:16 Letter is eight and a half by 11, legal eight and a half by 14.
• 01:19 Watch what happens on the screen.
• 01:21 Immediately, the ruler adjusted and the paper got quite long,
• 01:26 eight and a half by 14.
• 01:27 Now, look at this one, tabloid, 11 by 17.
• 01:30 Look how long this piece of paper is, my word.
• 01:34 So in this case, a tabloid, I'm actually going to go to landscape, and
• 01:38 this would be a newsletter that would word-wrap into separate columns.
• 01:42 I would fold it in half and distribute it.
• 01:44 So that is why you would use tabloid.
• 01:46 Okay, going back to portrait, going back to size, we have legal, we have executive.
• 01:51 Executive is just slightly smaller than a letter-size, so
• 01:54 if you are a corporate executive you have a smaller piece of stationary.
• 01:58 I have no idea why, but you do.
• 02:00 And let's see, one more.
• 02:02 Let's just say, as you can see on my screen I've got a little tiny screenshot
• 02:06 of some fancy stationary and a ruler, you can go out and buy your stationary.
• 02:10 In this case, five and
• 02:12 a half by seven inches, and that's just a screenshot of it.
• 02:15 So I can go to size, go down to more paper sizes, and I can type in my own.
• 02:21 So it was five and a half wide by seven inches tall.
• 02:26 And at the very bottom, I could hit OK.
• 02:29 And there we have perfect little pieces of paper.
• 02:33 So now, it did word rap onto the second page, but that's fine.
• 02:37 The trick, though is, look at your ruler.
• 02:39 So I'm zooming in a little bit, and you can see the ruler.
• 02:42 I've got three and a half inches of typing with one on each side.
• 02:46 A spare for the margin.
• 02:48 So, that's five and a half wide.
• 02:50 And over on the ruler on the left,
• 02:55 that's seven inches tall.
• 03:00 So five and a half by seven.
• 03:02 Of course, I would feed my stationary into my printer, hit print dash over there, and
• 03:07 make sure it all printed out just fine.
• 03:08 So, that is how we use orientation and paper size.
• 03:12 Thank you.

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