How do I make "sideways" headers and footers?
I want to make a Portrait layout Writer document with the occasional Landscape page, but when the document is printed and bound I want all the pages in Portrait, such that the Landscape pages are sideways in the binding. I want the headers and footers of all pages to be at the top and bottom of the bound document, so on the Landscape pages I want the header on the right and the footer on the left. I hope I'm being clear about this. I found a way to do it in MS Word but it wasn't easy. I don't see any way to do this in Writer. I'm thinking I may have to somehow keep the pages Portrait and rotate their content 90 degrees, but that would make editing difficult.
Has anyone done this? Should I submit this as a feature request?
Edit: The OS is Windows 10 and I'm using LO 6.4. The content of the landscape pages is tables that are too wide to comfortably fit in portrait.
You can only do that by putting your header/footer content into floating frames attached to header/footer paragraphs. Using tables in the frames, you may use rotated text to have it vertical.
What is the content of the lanscape pages? Images (or tables) or formatted text flowing from standard portrait pages and continuing into portait pages?
Give additional information editing your question (not using your answer). Don't format OS and LO version though this is not really relevant in this case.
Mike Kaganski - Thank you for the suggestion. I can't seem to insert a floating frame, and LO Help says those are for HTML. I can insert a text box, and rotating the text is simple, but it won't let me insert fields. I want to include the usual header/footer fields such as page numbers, etc. If the landscape page is page 6 and later pages 1-5 expand to 1-7 I don't want to have to re-number the landscape page manually.