Multiple page orientation in Calc Version 25.2

[lliefveld]

I want the first page to be portrait and the second page to be landscape. The Libre Office Calc help says it’s for 25.8. I have 25.2, and Help tab says I’m up to date.

I’ve created a custom style ‘My Landscape’ and one for ‘My Portrait’ (based on the Help instructions). At the top, with my cursor in the upper left cell, I change the page style to My Portrait.

I manually enter a page break, using Sheet-Insert Page Break- Row. The instructions say to use Insert-More Breaks-Manual Page Break, but my menu doesn’t show that.

The instructions say to use the dropdown box for Page Styles. The only way I can find to do that is either from View-Styles-PageStyle-Custom, or from Styles-ManageStyles, Custom. Either way gets me to the same dropdown. I click on My Landscape.

But when I go to Print Preview, the entire thing is in Landscape, including the first page that I wanted in Portrait.

I have tried changing to Landscape immediately before the break, and also tried it immediately after the break. Neither way works.

What am I doing wrong?

[LeroyG]

By what I know, it is possible to set different page style in different tabs (Sheet1, Sheet2, etc.).

[lliefveld]

yeah, that’s what I ended up doing. I guess you can’t do what the 25.8 Help said to do, in version 25.2.

[LeroyG]

@lliefveld

the 25.8 Help

Can you share the link to these page? Maybe there is a wrong wording there. Could it be here: Page Properties?

define page layouts for single and multiple-page documents

I can’t find any change for Calc page styles in the 25.8 releases info.

[lliefveld]

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/pageorientation.html

This is what I was looking at.

[lodf2023]

That link is for Writer, not Calc… wonder if that is the issue.

In Calc, I’ve printed multiple tabs at once that require different orientations.

[lliefveld]

duh. didn’t notice that it was for Writer. Thanks for pointing that out. I feel so stupid.